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Article #3302Re: Please learn English better
From: Julian Pardoe
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 00:00
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Esperanto League N America wrote: > > Sheldon Scott <bi947985@cranfield.ac.uk> writes in a recent posting (reference <32B883F3.167E@cranfield.ac.uk>): > > > >I've gotten alot of E-mail flame over the above, primarily from people > >who pride themselves on their expertise of international liguistics, and > >cosmopolitan nature. > > > >Well if you're so cosmopolitan, you might understand that the above was > >humour, and self-depreciating at that. > > > Some folks are so humourless that they need to be instructed when > to smile. :-) > > >If your other languages are as bad as your English, you might as well > >give up and join the monoglots. > > > Or the non-glots. Reminds me of a bad joke (which I'm going to get wrong): Q: What do you call a person who speaks four languages? A: A polyglot. Q: What do you call a person who speaks two languages? A: A bourgeois nationalist. Q: What do you call a person who speaks one language? A: An internationalist. -- jP -- PS: The one language was of course Russian and the second Estonian, Latvian ...
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11578d,ac66bd48e2177eda X-Google-Attributes: gid11578d,public X-Google-Thread: 10a20a,ac66bd48e2177eda X-Google-Attributes: gid10a20a,public X-Google-Thread: 1058af,ac66bd48e2177eda X-Google-Attributes: gid1058af,public X-Google-Thread: fa448,ac66bd48e2177eda X-Google-Attributes: gidfa448,public X-Google-Thread: 102cce,ac66bd48e2177eda X-Google-Attributes: gid102cce,public X-Google-Thread: 102dad,ac66bd48e2177eda X-Google-Attributes: gid102dad,public From: Julian Pardoe <pardoej@lonnds.ml.com> Subject: Re: Please learn English better Date: 1996/12/19 Message-ID: <32B96E36.24D@lonnds.ml.com> X-Deja-AN: 204979638 references: <4el8tf$a3v@chleuasme.francenet.fr> <58pruc$st7@cc.tut.fi> <32B0C013.41C6@cranfield.ac.uk> <32B883F3.167E@cranfield.ac.uk> <elnaE2n0ro.8so@netcom.com> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Merrill Lynch EME Ltd mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: sci.lang,alt.uu.lang.misc,eunet.politics,soc.culture.europe,alt.politics.europe.misc,talk.politics.european-union x-mailer: Mozilla 2.01Gold (WinNT; I)