Group: seattle.politics
From: rfischer@sonic.net (Ray Fischer)
Date: Sunday, February 17, 2008 4:13 PM
Subject: Re: 'We're not going to turn America into a bilingual country toaccommodateyou'

Bill Bonde ( 'Hi ho' ) wrote:
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>Ray Fischer wrote:
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>> Bill Bonde ( 'Hi ho' ) wrote:
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>> >Ray Fischer wrote:
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>> >> Bill Bonde ( 'Hi ho' ) wrote:
>> >> >Ray Fischer wrote:
>> >> >> Bill Bonde ( 'Hi ho' ) wrote:
>> >> >> >Ray Fischer wrote:
>> >> >> >> Bill Bonde ( 'Hi ho' ) wrote:
>> >> >> >> >Soupy Sales wrote:
>> >> >> >> >> Attila < wrote:
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>> >> >> >> >> >> So it dies make sense. Eventually, most people will know
>> >> >> >> >> >> English and Spanish, and the two languages will probably merge. You can
>> >> >> >> >> >> fear that for the rest of your life.
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>> >> >> >> >> > None of us will live long enough for two languages to merge.
>> >> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> >> You'll be long gone.
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>> >> >> >> >Name any languages that have "merged".
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>> >> >> >> English and French. Or rather, old English and old French to create
>> >> >> >> modern English. Approximately. 1066, Battle of Hastings, Norman
>> >> >> >> invasion, etc.
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>> >> >> >English and French didn't merge.
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>> >> >> You're an idiot. Oh, wait, "idiot" is one of those old French words
>> >> >> that you believe is English. For that matter, so is "language"
>> >> >> so you don't know what I'm saying, do you?
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>> >> >I do know what I'm saying. English didn't merge with French. You can see
>> >> >that French still exists.
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>> >> LOL!
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>> >> You _are_ an idiot.
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>> >Whether that's true or not, at least I don't make the absurd claim that
>> >French and English "merged".
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>> That's because you're an uneducated idiot.
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>Cite how French and English "merged". Put that right here ------>

I already did, halfwit. In fact you quote me doing so above.

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