[Air-l] Languages on the Internet - air-l Digest, Vol 20, Issue 28

[Monica Murero]

> I have been reading (finally) Carolyn Marvin's When Old Technologies
> Were New and she has a lovely section on how the British discounted
> Marconi over and over (insisting on calling him "Senor Marconi")
> until it couldn't be denied that he was responsible for the invention
> of the radio and then suddenly they started emphasizing that he had a
> British mother and wasn't really all that Italian afterall...

funny... Someone should tell Carolyn Marvin that actually  Guglielmo 
Marconi's mom was Irish, not British - I am sure Irish appreciate the 
difference. Annie Jameson ...the daughter of the founder of the Whiskey 
Jameson: perhaps that helped too  !

Monica

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Association of Internet Researchers (www.aoir.org) - Executive Board & 
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