Re: Happy Birthday, USA

On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 23:41:46 +0000 "Richard Kirke"
<richardkirke@hotmail.com> writes:
>
>
>>Q: What do you call someone who speaks 2 languages?
>>A: Bilingual
>>Q: What do you call some who speaks 3 languages?
>>A: Trilingual
>>Q: What do you call some who speaks only one language?
>>A: American
>
>I am English and therefore Bi-lingual English and FORIEGN.
>"Excuse me could you tell me the way to..."
>"Scuze senior, no comprende?"
>"EXCUSE ME, COULD...YOU...TELL...ME...THE WAY...TO...
>"
"Perdo'n Sen~or, no hablo I'ngles"
Then if an American, after a pause with a confused look on one's face
ther eis a moment of epiphany and you say:
"YOU-O (point with index finger to victim) TELL-O ME-O (point at self) 
WAY-O TO-O...."

Related by a (Now) bilingual Mexican-(now)American.  And not with
rancor,
just gentle humor about cultural assumptions.  She discovered she had a
boatload about Americans when she came here.

I blame the Media.  <grin>  They keep telling us that  the world is
learning English for business.	But then I * always * blame the Media.
<LOL!>

Best I should stop this now.

Gracias,
Glenn - warbeads@juno.com
.
6 mm miniatures rule!  Well, anyway in my mind they do!
.

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