To: RealMuLan who wrote (35668 ) 7/3/2003 4:10:32 AM From: Maurice Winn Respond to Yiwu, perhaps you are right that Chinese are quite special humans. Does that mean Jews are the chosen people and Chinese are second choice? But hang on, I think Japanese come in before Chinese for being generally quite special.the only reason for me to use/speak English rather than another Chinese dialect is I have to make a living here in the US. What else can I do? > Money talks. And it doesn't speak some weirdo language. It speaks the language of the person who has got the money. And those who have children here, spend a lot of money sending their kids to Chinese language schools > Yeah, yeah, and the kids can barely be bothered. We have the same stuff here. Silly old parents trying to import their irrelevant cultures. Be it Dutch, Chinese, Japanese, Samoan, English or whatever. They all fail and the children become Kiwis. Same as in the USA, people become yanks, wherever they are from. Of course I don't mean the first generation. Just the second but more so the third. That is why a trained (5-day training) Chinese typist can type 300+ Chinese characters ONE minute vs. 100 or so English words a minute for a trained English typist. >you only need 1,000 words to deal with every day life. > There are subsets of english culture where occasional grunts are all that's needed to get by with everyday life, but that's no recommendation. Sophisticated ideas required vocabulary and while it's nice just to be laid back and grunt our way through life, it's not enough to get serious stuff done.
