[texhax] Please don't feed the birds

[Sam Rhoads]

Gentle People:

I wrote the below request last week.  I have received several responses 
but not nearly as many as I had hoped to receive.  I haven't received 
any responses with Asian languages, French, Spanish, Italian, Arabic, 
or many others that I had imagined.

I have received Russian, Portuguese, Yiddish, British English, Cockney, 
and Catalan.

Please help.  Please send me "Please don't feed the birds" in your
language or any language that you know.

Thanks,

Sam.

> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:11:22 -1000 (HST)
> From: Sam Rhoads <sam at hcc.hawaii.edu>
> To: texhax at tug.org
> Cc: sam at perseus.hcc.hawaii.edu, sam at tug.org
> Subject: [texhax] Please don't feed the birds
> 
> At a local restaurant this morning I saw a sign that said "Please 
> don't feed the birds."  That request was then repeated in about 
> seven different languages.
> 
> It occurs to me that with help from the TeX community, I can do
> much better than that.
> 
> Please send me (at sam at tug.org or sam at perseus.hcc.hawaii.edu) the TeX
> (LaTeX) code that would print "Please don't feed the birds" in whatever
> language(s) you can.  I'd like to create a sign containing that request
> in as many languages as possible.  It seems to me that the result
> should be attractive.  Please include whatever other code that I will
> need to create the document.  Also, please make it clear, in English,
> what language (and dialect?) is being used; I surely will not know in
> many instances.
> 
> I will, of course, send you the result if you so request.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Sam.