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Fire Walk With Me

(38,893 posts)
1. If someone knows two or more languages, they must not be Amurikan!
Mon Jan 16, 2012, 01:15 PM
Jan 2012

Not that other countries sometimes actually teach multiple languages in their schools as a normal part of learning, and acknowledging the presence of a larger world around them...

Johnny2X2X

(19,038 posts)
7. Really?
Mon Jan 16, 2012, 02:47 PM
Jan 2012

Well then, I will need to see Romney's Original Birth Certificate. This just isn't adding up and until each voter has the original Birth Certificate (not a copy) in their hands Romney might as well be from China. I realize this could cause logistical problems seeing as their is only 1 original, but maybe we could all share custody of it, just as long as each and every Murican gets to hold his original BS and subject it to any tests of authenticity we see fit.

LeftinOH

(5,354 posts)
5. Instead of using his French for the purposes of cultural exchange,
Mon Jan 16, 2012, 01:40 PM
Jan 2012

his use of language was for the presumptuous attempt to convert people to Mormonism. In other words, he wasn't in France to learn anything about French culture (after all, he was there in the late 60s, and didn't drink any wine, date girls, or visit coffee houses or discotheques). What a waste!

http://bluchips.blogspot.com/2011/11/special-report-mitt-romneys-french.html


madrchsod

(58,162 posts)
6. french?..there are a lot of english words that were derived from the french.
Mon Jan 16, 2012, 02:35 PM
Jan 2012

i`m not sure how we could exclude them

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