XPost: soc.culture.welsh, soc.culture.cornish, soc.culture.irish   
   XPost: soc.culture.scottish   
   From: micheil@shaw.ca   
      
   On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 02:12:53 +0000, Josiah Jenkins   
    wrote:   
      
   >Whilst perusing Usenet on Fri, 2 Mar 2007 13:02:35 -0000, I read these   
   >words from "Westprog"  :   
   >>"allan connochie"  wrote in message   
   >>news:45e52e34@news.greennet.net...   
   >>...   
   >>> > On a pro rate population basis, I'll wager that more   
   >>> > Spaniards, Italians, Portuguese, Greeks and Poles   
   >>> > have attempted to learn to speak a second language   
   >>> > compared to the English !   
   >>   
   >>Why say English here? Why not say British?   
   >   
   >Because I meant *nglish !   
   >>   
   >>I noticed the same thing a while   
   >>back when there was criticism of "English" cooking,   
   >>as if Welsh, Scottish or Irish   
   >   
   >They all have a first/second languge to start with.   
   >Many of them speak 'Gaelic' (of whatever flavour)   
   >and *nglish. That gives them a head start !   
   >   
   >Perhaps because of that influence on the culture,   
   >there isn't the same reticence to attempt to converse   
   >in another language.   
   >   
   >Shouting LOUDER rarely helps !   
   >(even, as I have witnessed, in Auchan in Calais)   
   >>   
   >>If you speak the default language for world commerce,   
   >>you're less likely to learn another language.   
   >>How many Germans learn a second language that   
   >>_isn't_ English?   
   >   
   >Not the question in hand, is it ?   
   >   
   >How many 'Europeans' learn a second language . . . ?   
   >vis   
   >How many *nglish learn a second language . . . ?   
   >   
   >BTW I am not even speaking of achieving *fluency* in   
   >another language, just making the attempt to master the   
   >simple  phrases needed on a day to day basis.   
   >   
   >Excuse me   
   >Thank you   
   >How much is this ?   
   >I don't speak <. . .> very well   
   >Can you help me ?   
   >Numbers 1 - 10 (for the beers)   
   >Ich bin nicht *nglisch, ich bin Schottisch   
   >Je ne suis pas *nglais, je suis Ecossais   
   >No soy *nglés, yo soy Escocés   
   >   
   >-- jjj   
      
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