XPost: soc.culture.welsh, soc.culture.cornish, soc.culture.irish   
   XPost: soc.culture.scottish   
   From: allan@EASYNET.CO.UK   
      
   "Westprog"  wrote in message   
   news:esgjri$bb2$1@news.datemas.de...   
   >   
   > "allan connochie"  wrote in message   
   > news:45eca6a9@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?   
   >   
   >> >> 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.   
   >   
   > Given the groups this is posted to, it seems that it was just a way to   
   > have   
   > a go at the English. In this case, it was pointless.   
      
   I'd agree in a good number of the groups about 90% of the posts are   
   pointless.   
      
   Allan   
      
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