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by **Novus** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 1:26 am

A person that speaks two languages is bi-lingual and a person that speaks three languages is tri-lingual, but what do you call someone that only speaks one language?

........An American! :lol:

by **Filitsa** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 1:52 am

Dear Novus,

Only someone from south of the Mason-Dixon Line would post a stupid joke like this. :wink:

Welcome to the forum.

Sincerely,
One of the 9% of bilingual Americans

by **Novus** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 1:55 am

Filitsa wrote:Dear Novus,

Only someone from south of the Mason-Dixon Line would post a stupid joke like this.

Welcome to the forum.

Sincerely,
One of the 9% of bilingual Americans

Lol, I am one of the 81%. :oops:

by **Filitsa** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 2:01 am

It's okay, Novus. We have our own style of gun-mongering, monolingual rednecks up here too.

by **Novus** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 2:05 am

Filitsa wrote:It's okay, Novus. We have our own style of gun-mongering, monolingual rednecks up here too.

Lol, I am far from a redneck. I am more like a gun totin' hippy.

by **CBBB** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 7:32 am

So if 9% speak more than one language and 81% speak only one language, are the other 10% unable to speak or does the inadequacy of American brains stretch to mathematics as well?

by **Tim Drayton** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 7:58 am

Novus wrote:A person that speaks two languages is bi-lingual and a person that speaks three languages is tri-lingual, but what do you call someone that only speaks one language?

Monolingual

........An American!

by **Novus** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 1:05 pm

CBBB wrote:So if 9% speak more than one language and 81% speak only one language, are the other 10% unable to speak or does the inadequacy of American brains stretch to mathematics as well?

Depending on the study, about 81% of Americans speak only English fluently.
This link says 80% http://www.ppionline.org/ppi_ci.cfm?knl ... tID=254619

by **Filitsa** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 6:10 pm

CBBB wrote:So if 9% speak more than one language and 81% speak only one language, are the other 10% unable to speak or does the inadequacy of American brains stretch to mathematics as well?

CBBB, I think the issue here is much less about the inadequacy of the American brain to stretch to mathematics than it is about a certain brain's inability to infer that the other 10% are not fluent in English.

by **CBBB** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 8:11 pm

Filitsa,

Nobody mentioned English before my post, everyone was talking about languages. One or more!

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