25 Nov
2018
25 Nov
'18
3:44 p.m.
It was thus said that the Great Bill Gunshannon via cctalk once stated:
On 11/25/18 5:42 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
As an American, a friend of mine from Sweden (who himself speaks at least
three languages) considered me multilingual. Of course, my other languages
are BASIC, Assembly, C, Forth ...
I even heard of a high school in Tennessee who said computer languages
fulfill the "foreign language requirements" ... who'da thunk?
On 11/23/18 5:52 AM, Peter Corlett via cctalk
wrote:
Q.? What do you call someone who speaks three languages?
A. Trilingual.
Q.? What do you call someone who speaks two languages?
A. Bilingual.
Q.? What do you call someone who speaks one language?
A. American. Worse than that, it's *American* ignorance
and cultural snobbery
which also affects various English-speaking countries.
Please do not ascribe such ignorance with such a broad brush, at least
not without qualifiers that account for people that do try to respect
other people's cultures.
OK, it's a joke. (I'm American and speak 4
languages.)
-spc (Who speaks English and perhaps a dozen words in German, but
plenty of computer languages ... )