Never mind. I know where you were going. Dana S. Leslie [dsleslie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] stated the obvious. Freedom Scientific is not, as much as it benefits the blind, a philanthropic organization. It is a business, and if it is to continue to thrive and produce innovative products, it must make a profit. This is a statement of fact. I do not deny them a lion's share of the blind market as they have contributed significantly to the quality of my life. My comment was flippant. With some degree of humility, I thought that it was funny and clever. If we are devoid of humor, what has blindness done to us? Robbed us of our humanity? -----Original Message----- From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of mostafa almahdy Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2008 8:29 PM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Why a Finnish Eloquence voice? simpley because it's not an international speaking voice. and please post an possitive and benifit question's!!!. mostafa almahdy. blindness product developer. msn instant messenger: blind_user_forever@xxxxxxxxxxx skype account: my_speaker BEST REGARD IT'S ALWAYS HOPE THAT GIVE'S MEANING TO LIFE _________ On 12/26/08, Isak Sand <isaks90@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > I'm from Finland and I'm very happy that there are a Eloquence voice which > speaks Finnish. But WHY? The other languages of Eloquence (English, spanish, > france and so on) have much much more speakers than Finnish? Do someone know > why just Finnish is one of these language? Finnish is spoken by about five > million people. > > -- > Isak -- BEST REGARD IT'S ALWAYS HOPE THAT GIVE'S MEANING TO LIFE -- JFW related links: JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/ Scripting mailing list: http://lists.the-jdh.com/listinfo.cgi/scriptography-the-jdh.com JFW List instructions: To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- JFW related links: JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/ Scripting mailing list: http://lists.the-jdh.com/listinfo.cgi/scriptography-the-jdh.com JFW List instructions: To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx