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From: mullen@gate.net (Allen Mullen)
Subject: Re: [TALK] Languages
Date: 1996/06/17
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Diane Wenner (pixel8ed@netcom.com) wrote:
: 
: Has it occurred to anyone that ascii art looks the same in ANY language?  

   Do dollar signs appear in all other languages? There wouldn't be much
left of the pictures I do if you took the dollar signs out. 


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