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To: SeekAndFind

The only language that is spoken worldwide is English. Knowing English is actually useful, regardless of how lovely and attractive it sounds.


30 posted on 09/20/2026 2:29:25 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (There are three kinds of rats: Rats, Damned Rats, and DemocRats.)
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To: AlaskaErik

“Knowing English is actually useful,”

I think there is a planeload of passengers who would agree with you — if they were alive, that is. Their raghead pilot communicating with ATC in English, “heard” everything backward”.

Hubby got hooked on a group of air disaster videos, and that was one of them.


42 posted on 09/20/2026 2:54:04 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.)
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To: AlaskaErik
The only language that is spoken worldwide is English.

Folk singer Tom Rush used to repeat the joke in a Southern accent:

"Why do schoolkids have to learn all those foreign languages when English was good enough for Jesus?"

99 posted on 09/20/2026 5:34:53 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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