Bruce E McKinney <[log in to unmask]> writes:

>Dan Schmidt posted:
>
>>I seem to recall that this subject was brought up last year.  I
>>didn't understand the problem last year, and I still don't. ...
>
>It matters if there is information in the foreign language essays that I
>might find interesting or relevant to my knowledge and enjoyment of the
>work or performance of the composition.

Yes, but you wouldn't see those extra essays in English anyway.

The two situations we are talking about (I think) are:

  essay A in English, B in French, C in German, D in Italian

vs.

  essay A in English, A in French, A in German, A in Italian

Essay C might be really great, but you're not going to be able to read
it in either case.  In both cases, you're going to read only essay A.
I guess you could hope for

  essay A in English, B in English, C in English, D in English

but that seems kind of unfair to everyone else.

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