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From:"Wing, Michael J" <mjwing -at- INGR -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 20 Dec 1996 15:27:51 -0600
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>One last point,
>What do you call a person who speaks three languages?
>Trilingual
>What do you call a person who speaks two languages?
>Bilingual
>What do you call a person who speaks just one?
>American.
>With appologies to the few of you out there who speak more than one.
To whom are you apologizing? By your definition, if a person speaks
more than one language they are an American. ;^)
Therefore, by transitivity, if the school(s) in debate are in the United
States and they cater to more than one language, then doing so must be
un-American (being that the definition of American is speaking just one
language).
Mike Wing
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