Re: [tlug] man pages (was Browser blues)

[Viktor Pavlenko <vvp@example.com>]

> From: "Josh Glover" <tlug@example.com>
> Date: 2004/06/08 Tue AM 11:23:51 EDT

> >> Except that I speak exactly 0 words of Ukrainian (well, now I speak
> >> one, thanks to you!) and I know that all Ukrainians born before 2000
> >> or so speak Russian natively. :)
> >
> > Well my son, born in 1989, doesn't...
> 
> Good on you! I wholeheartedly support the efforts of the Ukrainian government
> to revive the language! I assume your son was not born in the Ukraine, or at
> least did not have his schooling there?

He was born in Ukraine but did his first his six grades in Japan.

> I thought that Russian was still the
> primary language in schools until just recently. Am I mistaken.

It is true about Eastern Ukraine, urban areas. Western part has always spoken
Ukrainian, and majority of schools has been Ukrainian too. In fact, having
spent quite a bit of time abroad, I find it difficult to speak Russian
myself.

But it has nothing to do with *NIX anyway, so I'd better shut up now :)

Cheers
Viktor