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Article #2Re: Two Peterborough Tory Councillors move to English Democrats
From: The Natural Philosopher
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:27
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:27
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Svenne wrote: > On Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:23:21 +0100, The Natural Philosopher > <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote: > >> Svenne wrote: >>> On Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:36:43 +0100, The Natural Philosopher >>> <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote: >>> >>>> You dont think speaking e.g. Spanish would be more of a give-away than >>>> the three heads on the dogs then? > >>> Perhaps he wouldn't recognise Spanish, perhaps he might think it was >>> Urdu or Punjabi or any of the other English languages spoken by the >>> English in England. > >> English is what English people speak. > > I find you most often speak Gobbledygook. > > Anyway, not so long ago you were arguing that there was no such thing > as an English identity. Now it seems you claim there is but so far > with only one attribute. > and identity is not a definition. The definition of an english person is either one who is born in England, or one who speaks english as a first language perhaps. Beyond that is has no precise meaning. > According to the Confused Philisopher an English person is a person > who speaks English. A quick Google shows that would make 1.8 billion > English people in the world. > No, they do'nt speak English as a first language, nor were they born in England. Twsiting my words to suit your argument, shows its innate paucity. > Fancy that, according to our Philosopher friend, there are more > English in the world than Chinese. Especially since a lot of those > Chinese can speak English and are therefore really English. > > I hope they don't come home to the mother country all at once, it > would get a bit crowded. > I wish some of them would. They are darn sight more civilised than half the descendants of william the conqueror who littter our housing estates. > Svenne > > > > >
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