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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (555890)3/19/2010 3:06:22 PM
From: J_F_Shepard  Read Replies (2) of 1578897
 
It's been said that knowing 400 words in any language is all that is "necessary" to get along. So why go beyond that???

" Also many visitors just stay in the tourist traps, where knowing English will get you by. "

That's American arrogance and a chief reason we are disliked in so many places.... And, of course, you also expect foreign visitors to speak English when they visit here.
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