On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 09:19, Kyle Faber wrote:
> On Thursday 20 February 2003 7:51 pm, Craig White wrote:
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> > Sheeee-it
> >
> > we be Americans...we only know one language.
> >
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> Reminds me of a good joke...
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> Two Americans are vacationing in Europe when a gentleman of Swiss heritag=
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> for directions...
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> "Parlez-Vous Fran=C3=A7ais?" he asks. The Americans look at each other =
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> at the gentleman and shrug.
> "Sprechen ze Deutch?" he asks again... The Americans repeat the drill.
> "Habla espanol?" he asks this time. Again, the Americans shrug and look=
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> "Parla Italiano?" he asks a final time, becoming frustrated by this time=
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> Again the American simply shrug and look at him. At this point, he drive=
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> off in a huff, to find someone he can communicate with.
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> One American turns to the other and says "You ever think we should try to=
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> up another language?"
> "Why? Look at that guy... he probably speaks like 90 languages and look=
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> good it did him!"
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OK - well one begets another, which I would have related earlier but I
think you can anticipate the punchline...
Q. In Japan, what do they call someone who speaks 3 languages?
A. Trilingual
Q. What do they call someone who speaks 2 languages?
A. Bilingual
Q. What do they call someone who speaks only one language?
A. An American of course
Craig
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