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RE: Why Americans feel no compulsion to learn foreign langua



> From: David K. Merriman <[email protected]>

> >restroom-finding in a few languages.
> 
> The second necessarily follows from the first :-)

    While deployed to a remote radar station on an isolated island,
supplied solely by periodic but unreliable airfreight sorties, I oft found
myself wondering:  which is the more acute emergency.... to run out of food
or to run out of toilet paper?