[Duo2400] Re: Foreign Language Posting & efficiently pertinentmessages/OT

[THE ROCK]

I remember years ago, when I was a freshman in college, I wrote in one of my papers
that American English was not english at all but a language that was very similar to
English ( the Queen's English as it is called here - will they change it to King's
English when Charles or Harry become King?). The professor was not amused. It was
meant as a joke. I always thought a trunk was something that came with elephants and
a boot was something I wore ... this is all confusing to me ... I think I'll go learn
Japanese or Arabic or something...
Peter.

"Andrew W. Hill" wrote:

> >A quick note: I object to the term 'foreign language' for anything
> >non-english. To me as a Belgian, a foreign language is anything that
> >is not Dutch, French or German. I feel that it is inappropriate to
> >consider English as being everyone's 'native', 'official' or
> >'national'  language. I do not like to be considered a foreinger
> >when I'm sitting behind my own computer in my own house in my native
> >town, reading my favorite list. If someone on the internet is a
> >foreigner, then everyone is.
>
> The only argument I can see favoring English only is that this is a
> US based list.  I think since the list resides in the US, it is not
> inappropriate to consider other languages foreign.  Although
> officially the USA does not have a national language...
>
> Aqua

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