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Leonardo Castro scripsit: > Hmmm... If the USA send some astronauts to colonize Mars, wouldn't > they take with them only a small fraction of Earth's phonemes? Yes, but that's because Earth has 7000 languages and the astronauts will only speak a few of them. That's not the same as emigrating from your home and leaving most of your language's phonemes behind. -- When I'm stuck in something boring John Cowan where reading would be impossible or (who loves Asimov too) rude, I often set up math problems for cowan@hidden.email myself and solve them as a way to pass http://www.ccil.org/~cowan the time. --John Jenkins