On Sun, 30 May 2010 04:05:54 -0700 (PDT), TerryKing
wrote:

You live in a very small, intolerant world.

I'm from Vermont, where the signs are almost all in English;
occasionally adding French.

But I've lived and hardware shopped for years in Africa, China and now
the Middle East. I sure appreciate it when some signs
are in English, along with the Arabic and Chinese!

Otherwise you end up like I did a couple weeks ago in Thuwal, Saudi
Arabia. I had to dig thru some construction trash to be able to
define "Plywood"
and "Washer"... by bringing a sample with me.

Let's keep the big problems to finding materials and designing and
building stuff....

Regards, Terry King ..On the Red Sea at KAUST.edu.sa

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If you are going to live in a country why not learn a bit of the
language?

John B. Slocomb
(johnbslocombatgmaildotcom)