Re: True? (fwd)

Dr. Srinivasa K. Rao (rao@lij.edu)
Fri, 12 Dec 1997 09:22:05 -0800


I forwarded the following information to Sriram, DeccanChronicle/ Andhra
Bhoomi, inchrge of Internet edition. 
his eamil is     sriram63@hotmail.com
- srinivasa rao K. 



Sreenivas Paruchuri wrote:
> 
> Some one sent me the following URL:
> 
> > Read something about German Type Writer at
> > http://38.15.65.117/bhoomi/sisindri.html (Ref: meeku telusaa)
> > Is it true?
> 
> I was really shocked to see things like; German has 2000 letters. And that
> too teaching to children!!
> 
> 1. In comp. to English, German has only four extra letters;
>         ae, ue, oe and ss (ä, ü, ö and ß).
> And German type-writers exist very much! It "may" be true in the case of
> languages like; Chinese (even Japanese people use modern script(s) we
> already had a thread on it, with detailed posting by Madan Parigi ...).
> 
> 2. All history books, that I read, put the death toll from WW-2 at
>    65 million.
> 
> 3. First raamaayaNam in telugu is: ranganaatha raamaayaNam (gOna
>    buddhaareDDi). Is it a settled issue?
> 
> Regards,
> Sreenivas
> 
> P.S. Can the aa.bhoomi editor/the author of this column be informed the
>      same?