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![]() Wolfgang wrote: What do you call someone who speaks two languages? Right! Bilingual. What do you call someone who speaks THREE languages? Right again! Trilingual. What do you call someone who speaks ONE language? Anyone? ![]() The standard answer is: American My answer is: those who have conquered those who speak the other languages. cheers oz, ...if each of our states spoke a unique language, the USians would, probably, speak many of them. |
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"Joe McIntosh" wrote in message
... //snip// :-))) Welcome back! -- Bob Patton |
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Wolfgang wrote:
"angler" wrote in message oups.com... Johnson wrote: ......(the best trout streams in the world). Well, I don't intend to start a flame war or anything ;-), but there are a lot of fly fishermen out there, that would disagree with you. /Roger But then again, those are mostly non Americans, and what the hell do they know? Well...... What do you call someone who speaks two languages? Right! Bilingual. What do you call someone who speaks THREE languages? Right again! Trilingual. What do you call someone who speaks ONE language? Anyone? ![]() Wolfgang cunninglingual jeff (sorry...but then, it is a universal language) |
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![]() "Wolfgang" wrote in message ... "angler" wrote in message oups.com... Johnson wrote: ......(the best trout streams in the world). Well, I don't intend to start a flame war or anything ;-), but there are a lot of fly fishermen out there, that would disagree with you. /Roger But then again, those are mostly non Americans, and what the hell do they know? Well...... What do you call someone who speaks two languages? Right! Bilingual. What do you call someone who speaks THREE languages? Right again! Trilingual. What do you call someone who speaks ONE language? Anyone? ![]() Wolfgang A Linguist -tom |
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![]() "Tom Nakashima" wrote in message ... "Wolfgang" wrote in message ... "angler" wrote in message oups.com... Johnson wrote: ......(the best trout streams in the world). Well, I don't intend to start a flame war or anything ;-), but there are a lot of fly fishermen out there, that would disagree with you. /Roger But then again, those are mostly non Americans, and what the hell do they know? Well...... What do you call someone who speaks two languages? Right! Bilingual. What do you call someone who speaks THREE languages? Right again! Trilingual. What do you call someone who speaks ONE language? Anyone? ![]() Wolfgang A Linguist -tom Sorry I take that back, How about Monolingual -tom |
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![]() "Tom Nakashima" wrote in message ... "Tom Nakashima" wrote in message ... "Wolfgang" wrote in message ... What do you call someone who speaks ONE language? How about Monolingual Technically correct, but Jeff's answer gets higher marks for imagination. ![]() Wolfgang and the major gets an honorable mention for broodingly cryptic. |
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![]() Happy Birthday, IJ!! Thanks for the reassurance over China......I worry about that stuff. Tom |
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