Re: Neal Stephenson. A debian user?
> Being a german and not particularly good at english language, I read the
> english version of "Cryptonomicon" as my first Stephenson book and found
> it not that complicated. I may have missed the style in part or worse ...
> ;-)
You might be surprised at what Stephenson does to the English language in
"Snow Crash". It took me about the first thirty pages or so to get the hang
of that special slang he uses, and I'm said to knoe English pretty well...
Beat Bolli
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