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Re: a dumb query? pls humor me



On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 07:06:36AM +0000, Liam O'Toole wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 22:20:21 -0500
> "Roberto C. Sanchez" <roberto@connexer.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 04:31:45PM -1000, Al Eridani wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > > Oh this is just too funny! The US protecting the rest of the world?
> > > When? Where? Hawaii? Cuba? The Philippines? Guatemala?
> > > 
> > You mean like Korea, Japan (post-WWII), *ALL* of Europe?  As has
> > already been pointed out, if not for the US, everybody in western
> > Europe would be speaking only German today.
> 
> [...]
> 
> No, you've got it wrong. It's thanks to the old Soviet Union that we in
> Western Europe are not speaking only German. It's thanks to the US that
> we're not speaking only Russian.
> 
> :-) 
> 
My mistake.  I did not realize that transitivity did not apply :-)

Regards,

-Roberto

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Roberto C. Sanchez
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