From: givanov@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (George Ace Maverick)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.bulgaria
Subject: Replies
Date: 21 Nov 92 07:42:20 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania


>I wouldn't be bothered  answering to your "abstractions" as far as
>TIETZE's "style" was concerned. You could have written to him 
>personally.

	Well, don't get flamed for me saying this, but  you're doing the same
thing. The Abstractor ASKED all replies to be mailed to him, not put on
the net, so how come you're using the net to restart the FLAME WAR which I 
thought was over?

>However from the above I understand  that you are not quite happy
>with Bulgarian language being used on s.c.b.
>Have you ever tried (if you can) to read s.c.french or s.c.italian 
>for example?
	Well, I wonder what might be the difference between those 
newsgroups and scb? Hard question that one :)   I'll give you a hint,
it has something to do with the actual alphabets. (No, don't tell me they
have "a lot" of different letters, cause most of those are ASCII supported).

>Perhaps they can use their own language as soon as they don't  
>"bastardize" the latin fonts. 
  They are not bastardizing anything, because they use the same alphabet :)
(or at least 80% in all cases).

>Does it make any difference if you don't know the language? 

As a speaker of more than 2 (from what I've gathered) languages, you should 
know that it makes HUGE difference.

>Or may be you are too much of an aesthete!?

	Oh cummon, you can do better than this. Is this a "witty" insult?
Did this person insult you in any way to deserve your insult or your attitude?

>Meanwhile my humble advice to the s.c.b. contributors is:
>"Please write in English as more people can participate in the ng.

  I remember hearing this suggestion somewhere before.
  
>However if you can't but want to share something, please don't
>worry about "abstractors" or "abstractions" and  write in
>Bulgarian, sticking to the phonetically closest combinations of
>the "mighty" latin (american :-)) letters.
 
	Indeed, mighty they are! You are using them right now aren't you?

>Anyone who knows Bulgarian will understand you.

  ........ (Couldn't read the "uuencoded" text that followed) :)


FROM A PREVIOUS POST:
>This thread seems to be degenerating into a bit of a flame war. Clearly most
>of us agree that George Maveriks's posting was quite absurd.
	                       ^ck
Well,judging by the 5 posts before yours, you just have to be right of course.
Look what happened to the only other person who "dared" express his opinion 
along with me on this newsgroup. 
  Actually, quite a few people wrote to me in support of what I said but then,
if this isn't posted in an "authoritative" and conclusive article like yours,
who would listen, right.

>Much has been said on the matter - I made the mistake of replying too.
>Someone pointed out that all postings on that subject were done in English.
>That seems reasonable to me as more people here understand English than 
>Bulgarian and thus using English made what was being said more widely
>understood. There was maybe, the (probably vain) hope that George will read
>what poeple thought of his suggestions too. 
	That you can be sure of.  Your "vain" hopes have been rewarded. 

>In any event, there seems to be
>little point in dwelling upon this subject any further - we should probably
>return to more interesting topics.
	

>Salutations, 
S^bliuteish^bns from me too (NOT).  ;)
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