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From: sauthier@liasun1.epfl.ch (Eric Sauthier)
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Subject: Re: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium
Date: 31 Mar 1996 16:36:00 GMT
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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In article <p6rzq8z91yb.fsf@lsh03.univ-lille1.fr>, lefranc@lsh03.univ-lille1.fr (Marc Lefranc) writes:

|> Well it is not so simple... Indeed it would be "Bern" for a
|> german-speaking swiss, but "Berne" for a french-speaking swiss... Too
|> bad I don't remember which language they speak in Bern[e].
|> 
|> 
|>    We're conversing in English.  But you're right.
|> 
|>    The US WWW references have an 'e'.
|> 
|>    I plead "Cultural Imperialism".
|> 


Nearly correct, Marc! In fact both Bern and Berne are correct since as you
pointed out, the spelling depends on the language and both German and French are
two of the four official Swiss languages.

PS Sorry for wasting bandwith, but I thought this cultural intrusion would 
amuse some of the readers who might think that this thread starts to hog
the whole newsgroup. Just my 0.02$ of course :-)
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Eric Sauthier
Artificial Intelligence Lab,
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne
Switzerland