05-03-2010, 04:28 PM
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Randwyck
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: VA and Saratoga
Posts: 1,352
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Originally Posted by Danzig
no, i'm talking long before we were thought of...hell, back in the middle ages, knowing five or six languages for the educated was nothing to brag about it. now, we're supposedly more advanced, yet many can't even speak english properly, and it's their only language!
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LOL - at some English speaking people who can't speak English properly. How true, how true.
I think Europeans still tend to speak more languages because their countries are small and they travel a lot between them.
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