[PLUG-TALK] Surprising way to shut up unwanted calls

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

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From: PLUG-talk <plug-talk-bounces at pdxlinux.org> On Behalf Of Paul Heinlein
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Subject: Re: [PLUG-TALK] Surprising way to shut up unwanted calls

>Q: What do you call a person who speaks two languages?
>A: Bilingual
>Q: What do you call a person who speaks one language?
>A: An American

Or - French

Or - French Canadian.

Go there and you will hear tons of people who also only speak one language.

And Americans don't have one language either, Paul and you of all people should know that better than anyone.  Setting aside the pronoun bifurcation and attempts to make English into a different language with politically correct doublespeak, there are at least 3 major recognized bifurcations of English - Cajun Vernacular, New England, and Texas variants of English.  Those are, essentially, independent language branches just as English itself is a branch off the West Germanic languages.

When you can speak Basque then you can preen about being bilingual, until then you are merely speaking different branches of the same language when you style yourself "bilingual" as are most people.

Ted