XPost: soc.culture.welsh, soc.culture.cornish, soc.culture.irish   
   XPost: soc.culture.scottish   
   From: micheil@shaw.ca   
      
   On 25 Feb 2007 19:52:47 -0800, "scally"    
   wrote:   
      
   >On 26 Feb, 03:22, Josiah Jenkins  wrote:   
   >> Whilst perusing Usenet on 25 Feb 2007 17:13:24 -0800, I read these   
   >> words from "scally"  :   
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   >> >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?   
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   >> >> 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!"   
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   >> >> 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.   
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   >> >> All in the interests of educating our English monoglot friends...   
   >>   
   >> >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?   
   >>   
   >> Nah, in the words of Pink Floyd,   
   >> 'We don't need no education'   
   >> 'All in all I'm just another prick in the mall'   
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   >For some unknown reason twisted Pink Floyd lyrics do not provide an   
   >incentive great enough to encourage the English to embark upon a   
   >foreign language course. Any other ideas?   
      
   Intellectual laziness seems to be bred in the average English bone.   
   Consider how often we have to explain their own history to them! Not   
   knowing anything seems to be a matter of pride. Look at how they put   
   down people with brains; calling them "boffins", "swots" and   
   "bookworms" and asking if their better-educated compatriots "have   
   swallowed a dictionary".   
      
   The sort of people who complain that "the salesman swore that it was   
   automatic, but in fact you have to press a button".   
      
   They even laugh at their own ignorance! Remember that Donald MacGill   
   postcard where a man asks a woman if she likes Kipling and she says,   
   "I don't know - I've never kippled, you naughty boy".   
      
   England is all beer, onions and farts and people mispronouncing   
   phrases they've seen in the Reader's Digest... like "Nom de Plume" -   
   (Name that plum!)   
      
   I must admit I have a soft spot for Chinese people learning English.   
   One told me recently that she had seen a "horrifical accident!" I was   
   delighted and may start using it myself!   
      
   The Highlander   
      
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