In message , Max Demian
wrote


Haven't you heard of the Tower of Babel?


You can get fish for that problem :)
--
Alan

In message , Roderick
Stewart wrote


As far as educational resources are concerned, despite Latin and Classical
Greek both being "dead" in the sense that nobody uses them in their original
forms for everyday communications, some study of these would be far more use
than Welsh in understanding the proper use of English.


Were not the 'rules' for the proper use of English established in the
Victorians era and nothing to do with the original Latin or Greek.

--
Alan

In some
ways though it would be a better idea. Scrap S4C altogether, and an
use audio channel for a Welsh dub or Welsh subtitles. There would
still be space in the schedules which could and would show productions

As the Asian population is increasing much faster than the UK ethnic
population, I wonder if we will end up in thirty or forty years time with peak
time programmes in Urdu, with English subtitles?

Bill

On 02 Oct 2004 13:32:57 GMT, o (Bill) wrote:

The English, the English, the English are best
I wouldn't give tuppence for all of the rest.

The rottenest bits of these islands of ours
We've left in the hands of three unfriendly powers
Examine the Irishman, Welshman or Scot
You'll find he's a stinker, as likely as not.

Och aye, awa' wi' yon Edinburgh Festival

Curiously enough this was written by a Welshman, or half turk-half
Welsh. The tall one of Flanders and Swann was born in Llanelli to a
Welsh mother and a Turkish father. It's an ironic song, so wasted on
the English, perhaps. Ask any American

On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 07:53:34 +0100, Phil M wrote:


Curiously enough this was written by a Welshman, or half turk-half
Welsh.

You may have to explain your reference above to Turk, or Half-Turk - I
suspect it may have flown over the heads of those people not from
south Wales!


--
Cheers

Peter

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On 02 Oct 2004 23:13:09 GMT, o (Bill) wrote:


As the Asian population is increasing much faster than the UK ethnic
population, I wonder if we will end up in thirty or forty years time with peak
time programmes in Urdu, with English subtitles?

Just walk around Bradford, where there is a large asian (mostly
sub-continent) population and listen. You will find that many born
here asians communicate with one another in English.

Only yesterday in the Supermarket I heard one asian lady (in asian
costume with headscarf) speak to her companion in excellent English
without even a trace of asian accent.

They have their own satellite stations of course. Interestingly
though I was in an asian barber shop a few months ago near where
I live. They had a TV with a Pakistani (I think) news programme
running. I did not give it much attention until after a while I
suddenly realised the programme was in English

Les Hellawell
greetings from
YORKSHIRE - The White Rose County

On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 10:43:32 +0100, Les Hellawell
wrote:

On 02 Oct 2004 23:13:09 GMT, o (Bill) wrote:


As the Asian population is increasing much faster than the UK ethnic
population, I wonder if we will end up in thirty or forty years time with peak
time programmes in Urdu, with English subtitles?

Just walk around Bradford, where there is a large asian (mostly
sub-continent) population and listen. You will find that many born
here asians communicate with one another in English.

I can't see it happening either. Morely likely more the Kumars at 42,
and the like. Most of the world is quite happy speaking English, it
is just the Welsh and the French who resent it. Perhaps I should add
to that some Americans appear to resent it too, what language is it
that George Bush speaks?

In article , Ed
writes
what language is it
that George Bush speaks?

Bull****?
--
Kennedy
Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed;
A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's ****ed.
Python Philosophers (replace 'nospam' with 'kennedym' when replying)

Roderick Stewart wrote in message . com...
In article , John
Beeston wrote:
Perhaps Franglais or Esperanto would be a better investment of educational
resources.

There are probably more people who can speak Klingon than Esperanto.

Yeah.. give or take a couple of hundred thousand ;-)

http://www.esperanto.net/veb/faq-5.html

"All the fluent Klingon speakers can comfortably go out to dinner together,"
--Lawrence Schoen, director of the Klingon Language Institute (Wired, 1996, 4.08)

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 13:03:29 GMT, "Ade Evans"
wrote:

Just checked me dad's house and he's getting ABC1 just fine...and he's down
Mumbles!!!

Question is where is it pointing at? Cause I am in Swansea and I do
not get it. but my father and I was thinking if we move the ariel
towards Cornwall / Devon area we might get it. Is that where your
father pointing at?
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