Posted by xhoster on 09/04/07 15:37

Lars Eighner <usenet@larseighner.com> wrote:
> In our last episode,
> <1188580227.538818.271360@m37g2000prh.googlegroups.com>,
> the lovely and talented Xah Lee
> broadcast on alt.fan.cecil-adams:
>
> > why is that, of websites in china, every link opens a new window?
>
> I suspect this has something to do with the educational system in China.
> I see many question about English from students in China that include
> examples, evidently from texts or handouts, which are stilted or
> impossible in every dialect of English I know of. Evidently, when a
> teacher in China decides this is the way to do things, it is simply
> impossible to question that or to introduce any alternatives.

Some of my colleagues have the annoying habit of making all their links
on our intranet open in a new window for no apparent reason. I had never
before considered trying to explain this by their nationality (at time of
education) but you just might be on to something here.

Xho

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