Thanks for the info, Prince.  This might prove to be useful if we continue to
allow foreign posts on the lists.  Actually, I might try using the
"translator" at Alta Vista.com too.  Copy and paste the text of the unknown
language into the translation engine, then click on the translate button and,
voila, one has a somewhat distorted translation.

Anyway, I might have unconsciously sounded like a xenophobe by using phrases
like "relatively obscure languages."  In fact, I think Fatou's actions are
part of Senegal's master plan to annex our dear country.(laugh)  On a more
serious note, I overreacted to her posts in French, but this reaction arose
out of a concern that what is good for the goose is also good for the gander.
 Again, I hope we don't get flooded by a wave of posts in other languages.
But in regard to the French posts, the consensus seems to be that, in our
eforts to promote diversity and tolerance, no harm is being done.  If this is
 the overwhelmingly concensus, then I rest my case.

Yus

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