Re: [ga] Whoa ! Multilingual?

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Harald and all remaining assembly members,

Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:

> At 01:00 06.04.2001 -0400, JessWest@aol.com wrote:
> >It seems you have already learned rudeness from them!  Williams we don't
> >claim as a Texan!   Jeff has all the earmarks of being  a misplaced
> >Arizonian that's been chewing on a little too much Peyote for too many years!
>
> whoa....even Jeff Williams deserves SOME respect...

  Thank you Harald.  >;)

>
>
> >   <<In fact it is a Multilingual issue because it deals in differences in
> >culture, and even different language, like NZ and SA.>>
> >
> >Excuse me - perhaps you should find a dictionary and look up the word
> >"multilingual" !
> >
> >The last time I was in New York, they were still speaking English there.  The
> >same was true in NZ and SA (assuming you are referring to New Zealand and
> >South Africa)
>
> As George Bernard Shaw observed, the English-speaking communities are
> "divided by a common language". Being a non-native speaker of English
> sometimes gives rise to quite unintended bouts of hilarity when two
> English-speaking persons think they are both speaking plainly and clearly,
> and totally fail to communicate.

  How true.  In fact I think that we have seen allot of this here on this
very forum, haven't we?

>
>
> Anyway, the SIL ethnologue (www.sil.org) lists 31 languages in South Africa
> and 4 in New Zealand.
> I wonder how many they would count in New York....

  Many more...

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