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Originally posted by JimF@26 February 2003 - 12:21
I love Ron's post about the Chinese thing. What a ridiculous thing to say. The internet is turning Chinese and I should learn the language. I'll probably stick to the one or two sites that continue in English, or a version of it, if that's ok with you.
I was just replying to your more or less moronic statement that the internet was English, and that therefore everybody on earth should automatically write flawless English.
Do you avoid American websites too btw?
Sounds to me like you're a little xenophobic.....
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PS Ron, if that's your post after you corrected it I would love to see the original.
I wrote "prpose" instead of "purpose"......
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The international language, of the developed world is English. It is spoken In the UK, in the USA and throughout Europe. It is also spoken in Australia, New Zealand and large parts of Africa. It has been accepted as the international language in the same way that the Dollar has been accepted as the international currency
Try speaking English to a Frenchman, and see where it gets you. :D
I think you'd be surprised how little people speak adequate English outside of the touristic centra.
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This is why children throughout the world are taught English as a second language. So that they can deal on a worldwide basis.
Hmmm, we got French here in Belgium....
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If this forum migrates to Chinese I will be sad, but will try to get over it. Obviously as I am reasonably conversant in Mandarin then that would cause less of a problem.
"Reasonably" wouldn't cut it, dude. You'd get flamed all the time for your lack of proper spelling.
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Obviously Dutch is a language, I apologise to all of the Dutch speakers who I may have offended. It was simply hyperbole. To my American friends, that is not a college football game.
Hmmm, I have to confess I didn't quite get the meaning of that, so I looked it up. :)
hyperbole
noun [U]
a way of speaking or writing that makes someone or something sound bigger, better, more, etc. than they are
Sounds about right to me. :D