From lockyert@mweb.co.za Mon Mar 12 10:30:37 2001 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.02) with ESMTP id f2CIUaL33032 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 10:30:37 -0800 Received: from jhb-imta.mweb.co.za (jhb-imta.mweb.co.za [196.2.48.244]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id KAA13950 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 10:30:33 -0800 Received: from default ([196.30.233.211]) by jhb-imta.mweb.co.za (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.03.23.18.03.p10) with SMTP id <0GA3008L9KLDFW@jhb-imta.mweb.co.za> for classics@u.washington.edu; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 20:27:14 +0200 (GMT-2) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 20:20:36 +0200 From: Terrence Lockyer Subject: No foreign languages in Iowa! To: Classics List Reply-to: Terrence Lockyer Message-id: <004801c0ab22$743d8340$d3e91ec4@default> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 Content-type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 X-Priority: 3 On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, J F Gannon wrote : The president of Drake was quoted as saying : that he has no prejudice against the study of : foreign languages, since he himself has taught : Russian, but that the way to learn, say, French, : was to go to France not to a school in Iowa. The : article did not mention how many languages were : involved--there are fifteen members of the faculty-- : but I wonder what the gentleman would say to any : one who wanted to study Latin or Greek or to those not sufficiently fortunate to possess the financial ability to go off to a foreign country every time they wanted to learn a language. The lack of prejudice attributed to the academic concerned sounds in this context rather like the old 'Some of my best friends are ...' line, and equally unconvincing. Terrence Lockyer .