On Sat, 23 Jul 2005, Bernie Kornowicz wrote:
> Jeff,
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> Since most Cantonese speakers nowadays also speak Mandarin, Mandarin
> is the most widely spoken language in the world. In China, the most
> popular foreign language is English. All Chinese children speak at
> least a little English. It's taught in all primary and secondary
> schools. I think that within 20 years all Mainland Chinese will speak
> English and Mandarin. I'm currently in China teaching English to
> Mandarin-speaking children, as well as sharpening my own Mandarin
> skills by having to teach them in their native language. Cultural
> exchange is where it's at.
...and cultural insults are not.
i'm not real crazy about some of the things china has done.
[tibet and burma come to mind...]
but it's still just lame to make fun like that.
i find fart humour more tolerable than that kind of thing.
yeah - i'm tired and cranky, but i kinda expect a bit more
from the folks on this list, many of whom i know and love.
so i get home after sitting in 95 degree heat in a traffic
jam for 3 hours and read my email only to find this?
so you can all go to your rooms without dinner and no tv.
that's really cool that you are in china!
what region?
anyhow: i vote we ALL learn esperanto.
cranky and deliriously tired,
jeff
smooches
[and this STILL has NOTHING to do with mellotrons...]
> So what does this all have to do with Mellotrons? Not a darn thing.
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> Bernie
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> --- In Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, jeffc@n... wrote:
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> > real funny guys.
> > make fun of the way people in another country talk?
> > what are you, freakin 8 years old?!
> > grow the fsck up please.
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> > guess what? there are more people that speak chinese than speak
> english.
> > [yes - that's mandarin and cantonese combined]
> > english isn't even second.
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> > cripes.
> > cranky jeff
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