johnaries
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Sat Apr-29-06 03:45 PM
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What do you call someone who speaks 2 languages? |
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Bi-lingual.
What do you call someone who speaks 3 languages?
Tri-lingual.
What do you call someone who only speaks 1 language?
An American.
An old joke, but a goodie.
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Sat Apr-29-06 03:46 PM
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1. Thanks for the giggle. |
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Sat Apr-29-06 03:49 PM
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2. Someone who can lie to a whole lot of different people. |
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{BTW, that's more or less plagiarized--either from Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary or maybe Mark Twain...) :toast:
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Sat Apr-29-06 03:50 PM
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Sat Apr-29-06 03:52 PM
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4. I realize it's a joke, |
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but if that was 'true' then all we would need was one language. It's not true however. Think about it, do all of these American immigrants, from all over the world speak just one language? I'm American, I speak more than one language, and so do most of the Americans I know.
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Sat Apr-29-06 03:52 PM
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5. What do you call someone who mangles all languages? |
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Edited on Sat Apr-29-06 03:53 PM by Island Blue
George W. Bush
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Sat Apr-29-06 03:53 PM
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Sat Apr-29-06 03:53 PM
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9. Oooh-ooh., I know the answer.... |
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Sat Apr-29-06 04:01 PM
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12. Great graphic, there!!! n/t |
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Sat Apr-29-06 03:52 PM
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6. Ya govoryu russkij yazik..... |
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...but I'm learning Chinese.
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Sat Apr-29-06 03:53 PM
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8. I speak two. English and profanity. |
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The second comes in handy when speaking of politicians or recalcitrant computers.
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Sat Apr-29-06 03:58 PM
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11. I'm a master at both! the latter a whole lot more lately. |
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Sat Apr-29-06 03:58 PM
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10. What do you call someone that makes up their own language? |
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Sat Apr-29-06 04:25 PM
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13. Let's see, I started out speaking German with my grandparents |
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learned a bit of Gaelic from my other granny, spoke English in school, took 6 years of French, learned bits and pieces over the years in a dozen other languages, and am now learning Spanish through osmosis in a border state.
Usually, that's called "European."
It always amuses me when people get all bent out of shape because somebody is speaking a different language.
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Sat Apr-29-06 04:33 PM
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14. And I always crack up |
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when I'm in Paris and some American tourist gets angry -- and I mean downright LIVID -- when everyone is speaking French! Cracks me up every damn time!!
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Sat Apr-29-06 05:15 PM
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15. "Oh good. Now he'll be bi-ignorant." attributed to Jim Hightower ... |
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on learning that a certain Texas politician was learning Spanish as a second language.
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