OT:Favor needed

[Bill Campbell]

On Sat, Jan 22, 2005, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
>On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 02:51:37PM -0800, Bill Campbell wrote:
>> >Ironically, if you *did* get someone for whom English really was their
>> >27th language, you likely wouldn't have a problem: anyone with 27
>> >languages under their belt is likely more literate than you or I.  :-)
>> 
>> My sister lived in Tehran for ten years, and her Pharsee is probably better
>> than most most native speakers.  Sally's motivation to learn Pharsee was
>> mostly that here children were speaking it and English, and she wanted to
>> understand what they said.
>
>I've never seen that spelled any other way than 'Farsi'; is that the
>native transliteration?

No that's my mispelling (I never said that I spoke it :-).  The only
non-computer languages I've ever studied were Latin and French.  I could
read/write Latin reasonably well when I graduated from high school, my
French was marginal at best.

Bill
--
INTERNET:   bill at Celestial.COM  Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC
UUCP:               camco!bill  PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way
FAX:            (206) 232-9186  Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676
URL: http://www.celestial.com/

``Never do your enemy a minor injury.''
    - Machiavelli