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From: gjk@talcott.UUCP (Greg J Kuperberg)
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d,net.news.group,net.nlang
Subject: Re: Re: non-English Articles
Message-ID: <112@talcott.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 17-Nov-84 15:44:43 EST
Article-I.D.: talcott.112
Posted: Sat Nov 17 15:44:43 1984
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References: <452@diku.UUCP> <1314@ihuxq.UUCP> <1524@qubix.UUCP> <154@uwai.UUCP> <6175@mcvax.UUCP>
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> In article <154@uwai.UUCP> tom@uwai.UUCP suggests:
> > I therefore propose the creation of a new group, net.flang, with subgroups
> > such as net.flang.spanish, net.flang.french, net.flang.russian,  [etc etc]
> ...
> > 	What do you call a man who speaks one language:
> > 		American.
> 
> And what do you call someone on an international network who calls Spanish,
> French, Russian (etc) _f_o_r_e_i_g_n languages?

Let's go by majority rule here.  How many sites are there outside of
Europe?  You can almost count them on your fingers (you may need your
toes).

More seriously, one reason that most Americans don't speak a foreign
language is that the while then non-English Occident is certainly more
populous than the English-speaking countries, the English-speaking
countries have more money than the rest of the West.  Now you might think
that that's a snotty attitude (and you're right), but I counter:  How many
Europeans speak Chinese?