Author: Mark Ryan
Date: 20:15:57 08/25/00
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On August 25, 2000 at 15:22:38, leonid wrote: >On August 25, 2000 at 03:34:34, Mark Ryan wrote: > >>On August 24, 2000 at 08:58:40, Peter Skinner wrote: >> >>>>>I'm sure that USA Chess programers would prefer to go to Canada than to have yet >>>>>another tournament in Europe. And to be honest, there is no large difference >>>>>between Canada and our northern states anyhow, and they sort of speak English up >>>>>there too. I wonder how many European Chess programmers would come to this side >>>>>of the big pond. >>>>> >>>>>It might be interesting sometime to have 2 tournament locations synchronized >>>>>together, one in Europe, and one on the American continent, and when you needed >>>>>to play somebody on the same side of the pond as you, you'd just do it face to >>>>>face the way it's always been done, and when you had to play a program from the >>>>>other side of the pond, you'd do it over a (dependable!) Chess server. >>>>> >>>>>Just a thought. I don't know if it's really possible or desirable. >>>> >>>>Sounds like a decent idea to me >>> >>>Yes that actually sounds like a great idea. Of course in a tournament of that >>>type, hardware could not be a factor, as no one would really know what the >>>"other side of the pond" would be using. >>> >>>And btw, we actually do speak english up in Canada, and just last week, we got >>>running water :) >> >>It's "Canajun", eh. And we only speak it in some parts of Canada. I'm not sure >>what they speak in Newfoundland, but in rural Quebec they speak "le joual", >>which is certainly not English, and it could not be French because I can speak >>French and I cannot understand a word of "le joual". >>Have a nice day, eh. >>Mark > >It is true that in some parts of Canada French is somewhat old and strange but >usually perfectly understandable. English of Montreal, for instance, is more >American English that anything else. > >Leonid. Vous avez raison, certainement. Ma remarque était une petite plaisanterie. J'ai plus de difficulté pour comprendre l'anglais dans quelques régions de la Grande-Bretagne! You are right, certainly. My remark was a little joke. I have more difficulty understanding English in some parts of Britain. (There, now the Brits will be angry with me too.) À la prochaine, Mark :)
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