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| From | Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.misc |
| Subject | Re: France wants a new keyboard |
| Date | 2016-01-23 11:11 +1100 |
| Message-ID | <dgfuq5Fa9msU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | <n7tnqq$e7c$1@solani.org> <dgf6omF46gnU1@mid.individual.net> <slrnna52ss.18j.mausg@smaus.org> |
On 23/01/2016 7:05 AM, mausg@mail.com wrote: > On 2016-01-22, Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote: >> On 2016-01-22, RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote: >> >>> To many monolingual people - especially those in English-speaking >>> countries - the idea of a keyboard layout influencing a language as a whole >>> often seems insane. >> >> Q. What do you call someone who speaks 3 languages? >> A. Trilingual. >> >> Q. What do you call someone who speaks 2 languages? >> A. Bilingual. >> >> Q. What do you call someone who speaks 1 language? >> A. American. >> >> >> (Sufficiently old as to no longer be strictly true, given the inroads >> the Hispanic population is making.) >> > > Q. What do you call someone who understands several languages, but will > only converse in one: > > A. French. > > That's only half true. The other kind if French person is the one who persists in speaking to you in English even though their English is worse than your French. Sylvia.
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France wants a new keyboard RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2016-01-22 17:10 +0000
Re: France wants a new keyboard Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-01-22 17:21 +0000
Re: France wants a new keyboard RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2016-01-22 17:32 +0000
Re: France wants a new keyboard Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-01-22 22:28 +0200
Re: France wants a new keyboard Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-01-22 19:40 -0500
Re: France wants a new keyboard Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-01-23 10:43 +0200
Re: France wants a new keyboard Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-01-23 09:25 +0000
Re: France wants a new keyboard scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2016-01-25 17:36 +0000
Re: France wants a new keyboard Andy Burns <usenet.jan2016@adslpipe.co.uk> - 2016-01-23 13:28 +0000
Re: France wants a new keyboard RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2016-01-23 16:58 +0000
Re: France wants a new keyboard Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2016-01-24 12:42 +0100
Re: France wants a new keyboard Yeechang Lee <ylee@columbia.edu> - 2016-01-27 22:35 -0800
Re: France wants a new keyboard Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2016-01-28 20:48 +0100
Re: France wants a new keyboard Yeechang Lee <ylee@columbia.edu> - 2016-01-29 22:42 -0800
Re: France wants a new keyboard mausg@mail.com - 2016-01-22 20:05 +0000
Re: France wants a new keyboard Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-01-23 11:11 +1100
Re: France wants a new keyboard Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-01-23 09:25 +0000
Re: France wants a new keyboard Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-01-23 23:23 +1100
Re: France wants a new keyboard Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2016-01-27 15:12 +0200
Re: France wants a new keyboard Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-01-27 17:03 +0200
Re: France wants a new keyboard Kara M'bola <maxupixu@in.val.it> - 2016-01-27 18:23 +0000
Re: France wants a new keyboard RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2016-01-28 10:35 +0000
Re: France wants a new keyboard Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-01-28 10:46 +0000
Re: France wants a new keyboard Kara M'bola <maxupixu@in.val.it> - 2016-01-28 11:18 +0000
Re: France wants a new keyboard Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-01-27 21:26 +0000
Re: France wants a new keyboard Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2016-01-28 10:02 +0200
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