XPost: soc.culture.welsh, soc.culture.cornish, soc.culture.irish   
   XPost: soc.culture.scottish   
   From: allan@EASYNET.CO.UK   
      
   "Westprog"  wrote in message   
   news:eseksk$n1a$1@news.datemas.de...   
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   > "allan connochie"  wrote in message   
   > news:45ebd82f@news.greennet.net...   
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   > ...   
   >> >> > 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?   
   >>   
   >> Why ask me? I didn't write that:-)   
   >   
   > What's your best guess?   
      
   Well looking back on the thread immediately before the post in question it   
   was specifically referring to the English. Saying that I don't think the   
   Scots or Welsh are in reality likely to be any better at languages. I   
   remember the first time I ended up being embarrased at fellow countrymen. It   
   was on my honeymoon in Austria. There was a foursome from Edinburgh in the   
   same hotel who obviously hadn't made even some basic attempt at learning a   
   few basic German words. Why bother when all they needed to do to make the   
   waitresses understand them was to speak very loudly?   
      
      
   Allan   
      
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