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From: rmt51@cas.org ()
Subject: Re: Slavic, IBM commercials
Message-ID: <1995Jan12.182424.3214@chemabs.uucp>
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Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 18:24:24 GMT
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In article <3f299l$gf8@agate.berkeley.edu>,
Coby (Jacob) Lubliner <coby@euler.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:
>In article <1995Jan11.215411.13905@chemabs.uucp>,  <rmt51@cas.org> wrote:
>>As for Coby's question on the IBM ad, I think it's Polish, although I
>>haven't been able to find a native Polish speaker who's seen the ad to
>>verify this.  I know for sure that it's not Russian or any South-Slavic
>>language.
>
>I happen to be a native Polish speaker, and it is NOT Polish.
>
>Coby

I should have guessed, from your name!  Well, my next guess would be Czech
or Slovak, although I haven't heard enough spoken Ukrainian or Belorussian
to discount those possibilities completely.
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