General TP Reading Question (extremely silly)

[Joe Allonby]

On 4/19/07, kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> By all means, brag about your accomplishments.  I'm incredibly impressed
> and jealous.  Like most native-born Americans, I'm essentially monolingual,
> even after 4 years of high school Spanish and 2 years of college
> Russian.  American bigotry assumes that everyone who's anyone will know
> English.  As we enter the 21st century, it's probably a poor assumption to
> make.  Mandarin, anyone?
>
> Laura


That's changing pretty rapidly. There are several businesses within two
blocks of my house that have NO signs or menus in English. All the stores
have signs in Spanish and some in Portuguese. You could get around quite
comfortably in my neighborhood without speaking English at all. in fact,
they tried to change the name of my street to "Avenue de las Americas". I
practice my French with Haitian and Central African cab drivers.
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