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   "Cory Bhreckan"  wrote in message   
   news:qL_Gh.653$as.273@trnddc04...   
   > The Highlander wrote:   
   >> On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 08:18:50 -0000, "Westprog"    
   >> wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> "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.   
   >>   
   >> Get a grip for Christ's sake!   
   >>   
   >> Many Welsh and Highland children's first language is Welsh or Gaelic.   
   >> They don't learn English until they go to school.   
   >>   
   >> The Irish of course, far from establishing a Celtic nation, have   
   >> simply caved in to England by using English instead of Gaeilge.   
   >>   
   >> My best non-British language is French and I have never had a problem   
   >> in France that someone wasn't happy to leap forward and sort out for   
   >> me. Going to a country with a different language and not learning some   
   >> basic words is not only arrogant; it's stupid. I have never forgotten   
   >> an Italian woman in London who died in a fire because all she could do   
   >> was shout "Aiuto!" (Help! in Italian) and as nobody understood, nobody   
   >> came to rescue her. Her ignorance cost her her life.   
   >   
   > That'll teach her!   
   >   
   At'll learn her!   
   >>   
   >> 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.   
   >   
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