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From: Ron Johnson on 3 Jul 2010 13:10 On 07/03/2010 11:49 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Sat, 03 Jul 2010 12:02:01 -0400 (EDT), Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 07/03/2010 10:34 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: >>> >>> Q: What do you call a man who speaks only one language? >>> A: An American. :-) >>> >> >> We speak the primary language of the [US] from Nome AK to Miami FL (7200 >> km) and San Diego CA to St. John's NL (5550 km). >> >> Thus, there is little pressure for "us" to learn any language other >> than English. > > You forgot Hawaii! > That's true. But then, I also didn't mention the Virgin Islands or, further away, Trinidad and Tobago. IOW, you've got to set practical limits somewhere. -- Seek truth from facts. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4C2F6DF1.5020900(a)cox.net
From: Chris on 3 Jul 2010 13:20 On Sat, 03 Jul 2010 12:05:53 -0500 Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson(a)cox.net> wrote: > On 07/03/2010 11:49 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: > > On Sat, 03 Jul 2010 12:02:01 -0400 (EDT), Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 07/03/2010 10:34 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: > >>> > >>> Q: What do you call a man who speaks only one language? > >>> A: An American. :-) .... actually, we men also grunt. That counts as another language. Then of course, there is Ebonics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebonics -- Best regards, Chris 1AB5FEF8 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100703121524.1495d5dd(a)makeworld.com
From: Lisi on 3 Jul 2010 17:40 On Saturday 03 July 2010 18:05:53 Ron Johnson wrote: > But then, I also didn't mention the Virgin Islands or, > further away, Trinidad and Tobago. These are not in the USA. If we are looking world wide there are also: England [it is, after all, called English ;-)], Wales, Scotland, Ireland, large swathes of India, Australia, New Zealand, Barbados, Jamaica, South Africa, parts of West Africa... etc. It is the language of the Internet, Air Traffic control, Unix/Linux commands.... and so on. But I took Ron to be referring to American English, which narrows the field a little. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201007032231.59567.lisi.reisz(a)gmail.com
From: Nuno Magalhães on 3 Jul 2010 18:10
On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 22:31, Lisi wrote: > It is the language of the Internet Mandarin is closing in. -- () ascii-rubanda kampajno - kontraÅ html-a retpoÅto /\ ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTinMvUs6IAJDmg4W0rk2P9dlaHgJN8NmFEaSZ45s(a)mail.gmail.com |