On 3/31/2014 4:47 PM, Rhodri James wrote:
On Mon, 31 Mar 2014 06:23:46 +0100, Mark H Harris
wrote:
The main point of the link is the status on English as an official
language. 28 out of 50 states have legislated English as the official
language; meaning, that you either speak and write Englis
On Mon, 31 Mar 2014 06:23:46 +0100, Mark H Harris
wrote:
The main point of the link is the status on English as an official
language. 28 out of 50 states have legislated English as the official
language; meaning, that you either speak and write English, or you're
going to have a really
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 11:41 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber
wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Mar 2014 16:44:56 +1100, Chris Angelico
> declaimed the following:
>
>>official language, and pick up any government form - something fairly
>>important, like applying for a passport or something. How many
>
> Passpor
On 31/03/2014 05:57, Mark H Harris wrote:
On 3/30/14 5:35 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Approximately 5% of the US population either do not speak English at all,
or speak it poorly. That includes approximately half a million ASL
speakers (American Sign Language, which is not a manual representatio
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Mark H Harris wrote:
>
> The main point of the link is the status on English as an official language.
> 28 out of 50 states have legislated English as the official language;
> meaning, that you either speak and write English, or you're going to have a
> really toug
On 3/31/14 12:05 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
What say you? We all type in our own language, and everyone else gets to
read it in their own language. Its kinda like the day of Pentecost (except
that its print instead of audio).
And Pentecost required direct intervention of the all-powerful God o
On 3/30/14 1:31 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
The most recent US census found there are 38.5 million people in the US
who primarily speak Spanish, and 45 million who speak it as their first
or second language. In comparison, there are only an estimated 11 million
illegal immigrants (of which only 7
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Mark H Harris wrote:
> As long as I'm passing along my dreams to everyone, we also need a universal
> translator on the uptake. In other words, everyone inputs from a universal
> encoder, and every browser has the option of on-demand translation (or not).
> Its a l
On 3/30/14 5:35 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Approximately 5% of the US population either do not speak English at all,
or speak it poorly. That includes approximately half a million ASL
speakers (American Sign Language, which is not a manual representation of
English but an independent language in
On 3/30/14 5:35 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Sun, 30 Mar 2014 01:48:27 -0500, Mark H Harris wrote:
Don't be silly, Steven, it doesn't become you.
Given the sorts of patronising, condescending things you insist are true
about non-Americans, such as their supposed inability to communicate
On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 9:35 PM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> Network effects explain why, out of the six or seven thousand languages
> in the world, just thirteen account for more than half the world's
> population:
>
> 1) Mandarin
> 2) Spanish
> 3) English
> 4) Hindi
> 5) Arabic
> 6) Portuguese
> 7)
On Sun, 30 Mar 2014 01:48:27 -0500, Mark H Harris wrote:
> On 3/30/14 1:31 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>> I'm not sure what point you are trying to make. We have people here
>>> from all over the earth, and enough illegal immigrants speaking
>>> Spanish to account for a population about the size o
On 3/30/14 1:31 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
I'm not sure what point you are trying to make. We have people here from
all over the earth, and enough illegal immigrants speaking Spanish to
account for a population about the size of Ohio.
*raises eyebrow*
Did you intend to imply that it is only il
On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 5:31 PM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> Did you intend to imply that it is only illegal immigrants who speak
> Spanish in the USA?
I think he's correct there. After all, anyone who doesn't fit the
white-skinned monolingual (barely-one-language, really) middle-class
stereotype *M
On Sun, 30 Mar 2014 00:52:20 -0500, Mark H Harris wrote:
> On 3/29/14 10:45 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>> On 29/03/2014 08:21, Mark H Harris wrote:
>>>
>>> Yes. Well, as the joke goes, if you're trilingual you speak three
>>> languages, if you're bilingual you speak two languages, if you're
>>>
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