English as a First Language? Don't Learn Another Language Then.

[Solly]

There is no point really...anyone who is educated or deals in tourism these days in a country where English isn't the first language will have learnt English themselves.

Any why would you want to someone to anyone uneducated or not concerned with toruism?

The world should speak the same language; if that is English, then so be it.

Liberals will probably try to argue that it is "tradition" or "culture". I argue that different languages are just another division between peoples; and usually it is liberals themselves who try to argue against artificial ways of dividing people.

Instead of learning a language that will be forgotten in two years' time and unnecessary even if remembered, we should be learning subjects like economics or philosophy at school, in order to save us from becoming a nation of people complaining that the price of something is too high or that multinationals are greedy.

Not a troll, an informed opinion.

[Mercator]

Completely agree!

That's very handy in, say, restaurants or public places for all non-English speakers. We can gossip about you all we want without you having a clue what we're saying. But everyone will understand what you're saying.

[Solly]

Well I thought it had been a while since I created a pro-America thread...

[St Leo]

You should learn Latin in school if only just to understand English grammar better. I didn't understand the who/whom distinction until I learned some Latin.

[Odin]

I must disagree. What if you want to ask a person on the street and he/she doesn't know english? Your view is so Anglocentric that I don't think you care about other people. People in a forgien country perfer to speak in thier native language.

[Solly]

Originally posted by Odin
I must disagree. What if you want to ask a person on the street and he/she doesn't know english? Your view is so Anglocentric that I don't think you care about other people. People in a forgien country perfer to speak in thier native language.

It doesn't matter how communication is achieved, in English or in another language.

Who needs Esperanto.

[Ozz]

Originally posted by St Leo
You should learn Latin in school if only just to understand English grammar better. I didn't understand the who/whom distinction until I learned some Latin.

Latin is differient, It is the language of science, and
is otherwise a "dead" language.

Latin is far more useful to me than french.

[Urban Ranger]

Yeah, if they don't know English, kick their arses.

[spartak]

Typical Boddy Troll thread.
Only 1/10 for this I'm afraid.

[mrmitchell]

This suggestion reeks.

[Odin]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Yeah, if they don't know English, kick their arses.

Quit being so Americocentric, thats why other countries don't like us, DUH.

[Combat Ingrid]

If everyone were speaking Swedish, we wouldn't have this kind of discussion, eller hur?

[mrmitchell]

er, excuse me...

Dette forslaget ryker.

[Combat Ingrid]

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Odin
Quit being so Americocentric, thats why other countries don't like us, DUH.

It was supposed to be, hm, sarcastic. Can't you tell?