RE: Why Americans feel no compulsion to learn foreign langua
At 10:58 PM 03/29/96 -700, you wrote:
More fuel for the fire: I've noticed that I've been able to follow this entire thread, and my multi-lingual skills are only as extensive as beer-ordering and restroom-finding in a few languages.
The second necessarily follows from the first :-) Dave ------------------------------------------------------------- "Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." P. J. O'Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> http://www.shellback.com/personal/merriman/index.htm
From: David K. Merriman <merriman@arn.net>
restroom-finding in a few languages.
The second necessarily follows from the first :-)
While deployed to a remote radar station on an isolated island, supplied solely by periodic but unreliable airfreight sorties, I oft found myself wondering: which is the more acute emergency.... to run out of food or to run out of toilet paper?
On Sat, 30 Mar 1996, Alan Horowitz wrote:
While deployed to a remote radar station on an isolated island, supplied solely by periodic but unreliable airfreight sorties, I oft found myself wondering: which is the more acute emergency.... to run out of food or to run out of toilet paper?
If you had studied almost any non-European language, you would have learned the word for `toilet paper' is `your left hand and a bucket of water.' Charles Bell
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