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Bilingual in Europe versus USA
people who speak one language are American.
.... or French. It's still very uncommon to learn foreign languages there. Specially English. They are still dreaming their french world language dream and it's still a national frustration that it has been lost to English. Every French can tell you the dozen countries in the world where French still is the official language, including uninhabited polynesian atolls :-) Only close to Spain or Germany you'll find some bilingual people. They even have a law that forbids to call a computer a computer. You must say tracteur or so. And a mail is by law a curiel :-)) Walter |
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On 24 Aug 2006 in rec.travel.usa-canada, wrote:
They even have a law that forbids to call a computer a computer. You must say tracteur or so. Ordinateur, n'est-ce pas? At least that's what I see them advertised as in Canada. -- Joe Makowiec http://makowiec.org/ Email: http://makowiec.org/contact/?Joe |
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On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Tom Peel wrote:
Tanner schrieb: ["Followup-To:" header set to rec.travel.usa-canada.] On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, Hatunen wrote: On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 13:24:53 -0400, Dave Smith wrote: spamfree wrote: In Canada, if a job posting calls for applicants to be bilingual, it means French and English. You mean Quebecoise and English. Likely meant French and English. We don't generally distinguish among English dialects in Canada, we call them English. Same with French. Ask a Frenchman what he thinks of Quebecois French. Ask me what I think of English spoken in parts of the UK. Unintelligible. But I don't correct someone from the UK if they refer to their language as English. |
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Sorry, but not one of your best I'm afraid. I think you need erase this one
from your memory banks. "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote in message ... Dave Smith wrote: Hatunen wrote: In Canada, if a job posting calls for applicants to be bilingual, it means French and English. You mean Quebecoise and English. True., but the Quebecois think it is French. It's funny, but I took French in high school, had s few immersion experiences, have spent time in Quebec and France, and had work dealt with some Quebecois and some real French people. I can understand French in France. I can actually communicate with people there and understand what they are telling me. When French Canadians speak their French to me it sounds like a different language. This thread reminds me of the joke about the businessman who put a placard in his window advertising for a bilingual secretary. A cat walked in and pointed to the sign, meowing to indicate she wanted to apply for the job. The employer figured he'd play along, so gave her a letter to type, which to his surprise she did, flawlessly. When he pointed out that the job also required she be bilingual, the cat looked at him and replied "Woof". ;-) |
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Many Americans don't realize that there are other non-English languages besides Spanish. Wow, what terrible school system did you go through? My public high school offered Spanish, French, German, and Latin. |
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On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 15:51:36 -0600, "spamfree"
wrote: Google "bilingual". All except one of the first page entries I get seem to be from the US, and none assumes that only English/ Spanish is meant. Italy must have a different version of Google. The first page had www.nabe.org/ www.latpro.com/ www.bilingualbooks.com/ www.csun.edu/~hcedu013/eslbil.html all of which refer to Spanish/English. I remember nabe.org, because I wasn't sure what it referred to, but I went to the site and saw that they *didn't* include just Spanish and English, but all "minority languages". -- Barbara Vaughan My email address is my first initial followed by my surname at libero dot it I answer travel questions only in the newsgroup |
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On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 10:12:19 +0200, Dave Frightens Me
wrote: On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 07:11:08 +0200, Mxsmanic wrote: Hatunen writes: The procss is that someone making a claim should support it if challenged, not that he should tell teh challenger to go and "come across it eventually". I'm not going to support it. If you're interested in knowing more, you can look it all up. If you're not, don't. You seem to enjoy writing things that you can't support. As you claim you want to educate people on usenet, how does not supporting something help? My first wife once confessed to me that she made up facts and statistics to win, um, differences of opinion from me. Mixi seems very much like my first wife in that regard. ************* DAVE HATUNEN ) ************* * Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow * * My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps * |
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On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Hatunen wrote:
On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 12:54:06 +0000 (UTC), Tanner wrote: On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Tom Peel wrote: Ask a Frenchman what he thinks of Quebecois French. Ask me what I think of English spoken in parts of the UK. Unintelligible. But I don't correct someone from the UK if they refer to their language as English. That would be rude. heh, yes. |
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On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 07:06:16 GMT, "Alohacyberian"
wrote: People who speak 4 or more languages are multi-lingual; people who speak 3 languages are tri-lingual; people who speak two languages are bi-lingual; people who speak one language are American. KM Oh, ha, ha, ha. Very good. ]Ddid you just make that up? Come around my neighborhood; at least 80% of my neighbors can speak two languages. In fact, I suspect at least half the town does. ************* DAVE HATUNEN ) ************* * Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow * * My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps * |
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