[Air-l] Why Am I Only Communicating with Text?

[Ellis Godard]

Nancy Baym wrote:
> However, if anyone wants to post in other
> languages, go for it. No one's going to stop the messages from going
> through.

Nesse caso, dê boas-vindas a todos. Eu quero fazer exame deste momento para
embrace todas nossos irmãos e irmãs do esperanto, e para dizer que eu olho
para a frente às apresentações da conferência em sua lingüeta nativa.

(A brief welcome to our Esperanto brothers and sisters, translated by
babelfish into Portugese.)

> So please, before going off on yet another rant/distraction about the
> Americanness of this Association make an itty bitty effort to get
> facts and history straight.

I'd like to nominate the McDonald's Big Mac as this year's recipient of the
AoIR sandwich of the year award, please. 

-eg