NODE e9436f58RE: Why Americans feel no compulsion to learn foreign langua
"David K. Merriman" <merriman@arn.net>Sat, 30 Mar 1996 23:24:26 +0800
At 10:58 PM 03/29/96 -700, you wrote:
>More fuel for the fire: I've noticed that I've been able to follow this entire
>thread, and my multi-lingual skills are only as extensive as beer-ordering and
>restroom-finding in a few languages.
The second necessarily follows from the first :-)
Dave
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NODE eb92a72aRE: Why Americans feel no compulsion to learn foreign langua
Alan Horowitz <alanh@mailhost.infi.net>Sun, 31 Mar 1996 02:58:52 +0800
> From: David K. Merriman <merriman@arn.net>
> >restroom-finding in a few languages.
>
> The second necessarily follows from the first :-)
While deployed to a remote radar station on an isolated island,
supplied solely by periodic but unreliable airfreight sorties, I oft found
myself wondering: which is the more acute emergency.... to run out of food
or to run out of toilet paper?
NODE 9cfe938bRE: Why Americans feel no compulsion to learn foreign langua
Charles Bell <quester@eskimo.com>Sun, 31 Mar 1996 20:02:31 +0800
On Sat, 30 Mar 1996, Alan Horowitz wrote:
>
> While deployed to a remote radar station on an isolated island,
> supplied solely by periodic but unreliable airfreight sorties, I oft found
> myself wondering: which is the more acute emergency.... to run out of food
> or to run out of toilet paper?
>
If you had studied almost any non-European language, you would have
learned the word for `toilet paper' is `your left hand and a bucket of
water.'
Charles Bell