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Multilingualism
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25 Feb 2007 Sun 06:06 pm |
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25 Feb 2007 Sun 06:12 pm |
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Quoting qdemir: Quoting Capoeira: Quoting qdemir: Quoting Capoeira:
First you claim 'ignorance' of the knowledge of any U.S. citizen that speaks Spanish. Now you suddenly, after reading 12 names, you are acutely knowledgeable about how Latinos operate without feeling as if they belong or their refusal to be a part of the U.S. society. Also you base your arguments on immigrants living in Turkey. Then draw conclusions of ability to suceed or not in a foreign land. There are many great books out there and recent documentaries regarding the Latino immigrant and the Latino U.S. citizen. I won't name a book as it will be mocked as just 'one' out of the possibly trillions of books that have been written in our world. Good luck in doing your own research regarding a topic that you clearly know nothing about. After doing that I'll be more than glad to field a valid conversation with you on this topic.
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You don't seem so tolerant and open-minded as you are intolerent and narrow-minded, when other people talk about you. Anway I thought as much. You haven't proved me wrong.
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I'll wear your adjectives as badges of honor!
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Are you sure you managed to get me right?
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I understood you perfectly well. 
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25 Feb 2007 Sun 06:22 pm |
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25 Feb 2007 Sun 10:11 pm |
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Quoting Elisa: Quoting robyn  : but i thought Belgians spoke Belgian..is there not a Belgian language?:-S |
There is no such thing as a "Belgian language" or "Belgian"...
Quoting robyn : sorry if it seems a little dumb |
it's OK, I won't tell anyone 
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thanks it must just be what we call it  sorry again 
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25 Feb 2007 Sun 10:12 pm |
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Quoting Trudy: Quoting robyn : this will probably go down as one the dumbest things said ever,.but i thought Belgians spoke Belgian..is there not a Belgian language?:-S sorry if it seems a little dumb |
No, Belgian people speak French or Flemish (and like Elisa said, in a small part German). Spoken it's quite different from Dutch, but written it is the same - and I have to admit Belgian people are better in Dutch, than the Dutch themselves. They almost every year win the Dutch language competition...  |
thanks to you too trudy
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25 Feb 2007 Sun 11:01 pm |
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Quoting qdemir: Quoting Capoeira: Quoting qdemir: Quoting Capoeira: Quoting qdemir: Quoting Capoeira:
First you claim 'ignorance' of the knowledge of any U.S. citizen that speaks Spanish. Now you suddenly, after reading 12 names, you are acutely knowledgeable about how Latinos operate without feeling as if they belong or their refusal to be a part of the U.S. society. Also you base your arguments on immigrants living in Turkey. Then draw conclusions of ability to suceed or not in a foreign land. There are many great books out there and recent documentaries regarding the Latino immigrant and the Latino U.S. citizen. I won't name a book as it will be mocked as just 'one' out of the possibly trillions of books that have been written in our world. Good luck in doing your own research regarding a topic that you clearly know nothing about. After doing that I'll be more than glad to field a valid conversation with you on this topic.
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You don't seem so tolerant and open-minded as you are intolerent and narrow-minded, when other people talk about you. Anway I thought as much. You haven't proved me wrong.
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I'll wear your adjectives as badges of honor!
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Are you sure you managed to get me right?
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I understood you perfectly well. |
I don't think so. |
Do you think I should be offended or at least show some sign of being upset/perturbed? I have stated that I would wear them as a badge of honor. Please don't think I don't get your meaning. I do and quite clearly. However, a stranger on the internet with zero knowledge of who I am cannot possibly know what I am like. Therefore, thanks for trying to define/describe me. I am flattered that you took the time to attempt or even contemplate it. Best wishes to you!
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25 Feb 2007 Sun 11:24 pm |
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Quoting Capoeira: How is the US monolingual? |
I guess things got mixed up here. The OP wasn't talking about monolingual countries but about individual people lacking language skills.
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25 Feb 2007 Sun 11:46 pm |
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Quoting AllTooHuman: Quoting libralady: I know French, Spanish and Italian as well as Egnlish but I would never claim that I can speak them, until I am fluent and can be clearly understood in those countries. |
By the way, I must say I envy of you in this respect! |
I have read this again and realise how dumb it sounds! Of course, I can hold my own in English 
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26 Feb 2007 Mon 12:20 am |
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Capoeira- 50 million or so people, I guess, constitue/form approximately %20 of the whole population in the USA, which is sadly not enough to make/render the English language "dominant", nor is the USA "poly-lingual". Perhaps what I regard as "official", you regard as "dominant", I can't know. Whatever!
And I still back up my former remark- the USA and the UK will remain monolingual, for the very language of their own will sooner or later be, if not by now, virtually the second language of all other countries. This is what I have observed from the way things are going; I may, needles to say, be wrong. But at least this is what I intended to refer to.
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26 Feb 2007 Mon 12:27 am |
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Elisa- when and where did German join in and thus spoil the play? Whereas, nicely I was supporting my argument with only Dutch and French! Now I clearly see the situation there is indeed very complicated. So, let's forget the example Belgium! Thank you for the info anyway.
Well... another one wanted!... this time from Canada!... who will be able tell us in both English and French at this court!
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26 Feb 2007 Mon 12:27 am |
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Quoting AllTooHuman:
And I still back up my former remark- the USA and the UK will remain monolingual, for the very language of their own will sooner or later be, if not by now, virtually the second language of all other countries. This is what I have observed from the way things are going; I may, needles to say, be wrong. But at least this is what I intended to refer to. |
After my error from earlier, English will always be the official language in UK and USA. UK does not border with any other country, and most countries that have more than one official langauge border another country (or more) or am I digging a hole for AllTooHuman to dump my feeble post into!
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