-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 12:37:06PM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > Ah. You're mixing up "subset" and "superset." Paul said you can't > make it in the US, which includes the subset Brooklyn.
Take all the major multilingual cities combined and it still comes up to up to something like 1% of the country geographically, tops (just off the top of my head). Even in Portland, where Spanish, Russian, Korean, Japanese and Old German are spoken, English is the only common denominator. > When I read Marty's reply, it seemed more a play on the idea that > Brooklyn-ites don't actually speak English. Well, not so much as they chew on the language and spit it back out, but you can at least understand what they're saying the vast majority of the time. > Of course, there's a lot of people from where I'm from who would > dispute the suggestion that English is spoken anywhere in the US. I > imagine the British might go even farther and say anywhere outside > the former British Empire. It's still more or less an empire, they've just delegated the vast majority of day-to-day business to the respective commonwealths. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : http://ursine.ca/ `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian. Because it *must* work. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAM8d+UzgNqloQMwcRAiMJAKDd2Dp968NKHpwqb/XgNuyddTWD1ACfSTEP vDSQxvbXvqdPDuYqc8wbDmY= =o+FR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
