Geoff Miller wrote:


Americans aren't "too lazy" to study foreign languages.
We simply have no practical need to do so. This is
because of the sheer size of our country and the cor-
responding lack of proximity to peoples nattering in
other tongues. Hell, we have mere *counties* that are
bigger than a lot of those cute little European nations.

Which counties are bigger than "a lot" of European Nations?
Your definition of "a lot" differs from mine.