XPost: soc.culture.welsh, soc.culture.cornish, soc.culture.irish   
   XPost: soc.culture.scottish   
   From: micheil@shaw.ca   
      
   On 25 Feb 2007 17:13:24 -0800, "scally"    
   wrote:   
      
   >On 25 Feb, 23:31, The Highlander  wrote:   
   >> On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 09:59:02 -0000, "Walker"    
   >> wrote:   
   >>   
   >> >Argthenaeus claimed in his Deipnosophists 13.603 that "The Celts, in spite   
   >> >of the fact that their women are very beautiful, prefer boys as sexual   
   >> >partners. There are some of them who will regularly go to bed - on those   
   >> >animal skins of theirs - with a pair of lovers. (viz.,Wickipedia Celt).   
   >> >Why don't you poof-das get a life and shag women instead of young boys?   
   >> >Pourquoire vous hommens Celtic et bizarre ne vivrez comme les vrais hommes   
   >> >et foutez les fammes et ne foutez vous pas encore les jueune garcons?   
   >>   
   >> What in the name of God is that last language - a Corsican dialect?   
   >>   
   >> À Paris, dans ma jeunesse, on pouvait entendre des jeunes gamins qui   
   >> crient, "Regardez! 'Y a trois pédales sur cette Spad là!"   
   >>   
   >> (In Paris, in my young days you could hear street urchins shouting,   
   >> "Look! There are three pedals on that bike there!"   
   >>   
   >> Pédale, or PD (say Pay Day) is derived from pédéraste; a pervert; and   
   >> was Paris slang for a homosexual. A Spad meant an old broken-down   
   >> bike, so-named from the WW1 French aircraft.   
   >>   
   >> All in the interests of educating our English monoglot friends...   
   >>   
   >> The Highlander   
   >>   
   >> Faodaidh nach ionann na beachdan anns   
   >> an post seo agus beachdan a' Ghàidheil.   
   >> The views expressed in this post are   
   >> not necessarily those of The Highlander.   
   >   
   >The only way to encourage an English person to learn another language   
   >is to provide an incentive to do so. Can you think of a reason which   
   >justifies the efforts involved?   
      
   Sure! It would end your reputation as the least literate national   
   group in Europe. You must agree that most English people are pretty   
   ignorant, apart from knowing how to fill out a football pool form or   
   place a bet. We see it here in English posters' spelling.   
      
   I remember watching a bus salesman on English TV whining about losing   
   a large sale in Cuba. His beef was that the competition could speak   
   Spanish and he couln't! God save us all from such a Little Englander   
   attitude, which I gather is also your attitude.   
      
   I did some very profitable business for some years because I speak   
   Cantonese Chinese. Chinese buyers loved me because the Scots have an   
   excellent reputation in Asia for honesty and for not accepting bribes.   
   Most Chinese wouldn't touch a Chinese salesman with a 10 ft.   
   chopstick, unless they sense that they can beat him out of his   
   commission somehow. It's like watching sharks in action.   
      
      
   The Highlander   
      
   Faodaidh nach ionann na beachdan anns   
   an post seo agus beachdan a' Ghàidheil.   
   The views expressed in this post are   
   not necessarily those of The Highlander.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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