On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> immo vero scripsit > > > On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Nick Phillips wrote: > > > [*] By definition, the English speak English. What the Americans speak is > > > different to what the English speak. Therefore the Americans don't speak > > > English. > > > > That would mean the Belgian would speak Belgian, right? > > > > I doubt it... > > No, Belgian would not speak Belgian, but they are "Belgian" > and thus it can be "belgian", as it were.
Ah. And would that mean "belgian dutch" (also known as "flemish"), "belgian french" (also known as "walloon"), or "belgian german"? What I meant to say is simple: you can't know what language people speak by having a look at the country they live in. Thus, the english do _not_, by definition, speak english. -- wouter dot verhelst at advalvas dot be "Human knowledge belongs to the world" -- from the movie "Antitrust" rm -rf /bin/laden