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To: marcos who wrote (35338)	6/24/2003 9:23:53 PM
From: LLCF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Yes, of course one is far better off knowing English as far as making a living here long term. DAK

To: marcos who wrote (35338)	6/25/2003 2:58:27 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Marcos, it always amuses me when people claim to be proud of being black or mestizo or some other great brew of human DNA. They had zero to do with it and have nothing whatsoever to be proud of. It's like being proud of not being a cabbage tree or fish or something. That's ridiculous. One starts out simply different from other things. What oneself chooses to do and achieves could give rise to pride, but being proud of being a human, Kiwi, black, mestizo, Japanese or Mexican for example is simply absurd. One might be pleased to be a Kiwi, mestizo, human, or Japanese, but pleased, happy and glad are quite different from proud. Maybe they think that being a mestizo makes them superior to me and they should therefore be proud [which is stupid, and shows they therefore have no basis for pride, but assuming that's what they mean, then they can go to hell]. They could also reflect on the old proverb that pride comes before a fall. Mqurice

To: marcos who wrote (35338)	6/25/2003 3:18:07 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

Marcos, since I'm primed with wine and ranting; on language. My theory [just made up] is that rather than <i think a person living in the California to Texas belt, even well beyond that, is really missing quality of life without a decently fluent level of spanish>. One would do better to learn the language of the future cash flow. Spanish language GDP = not bad [in that area anyway] American language GDP = huge Mandarin language GDP = growing really fast with 1.3 billion people but really, ideographs with no tense, plural etc = too stone age. Japanese language GDP = huge, but dwindling and only 110 million people. But a well designed language. Maori language GDP = bugger all and going nowhere fast French = giggle, though cafe and restaurant are handy words Russian = had their day; glasnost is a handy word German = they lost the war so have to learn American Latin = school pupil cruelty from the Roman Empire - good riddance. Arabic = stupid squiggles about Islamic Jihad; they can go to hell. Hebrew = get a grip you 'chosen people' and learn American. Hieroglyphs = no GDP but good for reading the Rosetta Stone Africa = game reserve English = pedants paradise but nigga rap is wiping them. Binary 0 1 = gaining ground really fast and nobody can speak the lingo like the computers. 01 will rule the world. I should learn that one [but I'm too old] Mqurice PS: Esperanto = Spanish more or less and not much GDP.