Posted on 10/20/2008 10:33:12 PM PDT by buccaneer81
Now if they’d only give that much committment to English in American schools, we’d be on a better track...
But that would be racist.
France doesn’t have to worry. The youtube generation has butchered the English language so much that soon p30P1c Vi1l B Talkin lik Dis.
Thanks to a little law called Freedom of Speech....
It would probably be advisable for Englihs speaking students to study Chinese.
True. If you're begging for your car not to be torched in Paris.
pathetic isn’t it?
(shrug of the shoulders) If the Manchurian canidate get's elected what won't be??
France has been pathetic since 1792.
I have feeling that such a resident of the White House may face some serious organized opposition (That's all I'll say to avoid...controversy.)
Then why in the freakin world do I have to press one in AMERICA to communicate in English when I call an automated phone service?
I’ve traveled to many foreign countries. Routinely I was able to find someone on the street who spoke English if I needed help with something.
However, go to any street corner in downtown Los Angeles and you won’t have a snowballs chance of finding anybody who speaks English.
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French and English, the two languages of civilization. Les deux langues d’un monde civilisé.
Constant reports of the death of French are always exaggerated.
(Greek, Latin, French, English: the Western world keeps the hits on coming!)
Liberals want Arabic and Spanish to feel warm, cozy and “diverse” while their neighborhoods are turned to 3rd World shooting galleries, me included.
Let's see -- 26 characters vs. 4,000, even in the "simplified Mao script" ... my computer speaks ASCII. The internet runs on ASCII. ASCII, and ye shall receive-y. People around the world can learn "Caterpillar Simplified English" -- a restricted dialect of perhaps 1,000 words -- in a month.
Dead language anyway. In 30 years, Arabic will be the dominate language of France.
Why do you need to press one for English? Because businesses don’t like losing potential customers who prefer Spanish.
The existence of Spanish as a second language is troublesome for national unity, but we’ve been through this before with German and Polish and other languages. The second generation speaks English, even now with Hispanic youth.
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