On Sat, 03 Jul 2010 12:05:53 -0500
Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:

> On 07/03/2010 11:49 AM, Stephen Powell wrote:
> > On Sat, 03 Jul 2010 12:02:01 -0400 (EDT), Ron Johnson wrote:
> >> On 07/03/2010 10:34 AM, Stephen Powell wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Q: What do you call a man who speaks only one language?
> >>> A: An American. :-)

... actually, we men also grunt. That counts as another language.
Then of course, there is Ebonics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebonics


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On Sat, 03 Jul 2010 13:05:53 -0400 (EDT), Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 07/03/2010 11:49 AM, Stephen Powell wrote:
>>
>> You forgot Hawaii!
>
> That's true. But then, I also didn't mention the Virgin Islands or,
> further away, Trinidad and Tobago. IOW, you've got to set practical
> limits somewhere.

True. But Hawaii is a _state_. And I used to _live_ there.
So the omission really stood out to me.

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On Saturday 03 July 2010 18:05:53 Ron Johnson wrote:
> But then, I also didn't mention the Virgin Islands or,
> further away, Trinidad and Tobago.

These are not in the USA. If we are looking world wide there are also:
England [it is, after all, called English ;-)], Wales, Scotland, Ireland,
large swathes of India, Australia, New Zealand, Barbados, Jamaica, South
Africa, parts of West Africa... etc.

It is the language of the Internet, Air Traffic control, Unix/Linux
commands.... and so on.

But I took Ron to be referring to American English, which narrows the field a
little.

Lisi


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On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 22:31, Lisi wrote:
> It is the language of the Internet

Mandarin is closing in.

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