From: tgpedersen
Message: 26974
Date: 2003-11-08
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>wrote:
> >world
> > I remember in Grand Junction, Colorado someone fixing my VW for
> > free, since I didn't have much money. I felt bad about it, so I
> > offered to teach him some German, so he could read the manuals
> > in German, if need be. Pointless, he said, in ten years time
> > everyone will be speaking English anyway. That was 1971.
>
> It sounds like both you _and_ Glen have had some harrowing
> experiences in your face to face encounters with "Homo
> Americanus" in his natural habitat. You ought to write a
> book about it someday. Anyway, maybe you should get your
> information about language change from linguists instead
> of from auto-mechanics. I've also heard the suggestion
> that Chinese is going to become the world's language. If
> it's to be either English or Chinese, I really hope that
> they come up with some sort of better writing systems.
>
> > McLuhan was wrong about the global village. This is what the
> > is: a big room surrounded by small rooms behind one-way mirrors.We
> > can see everything you do, and you can't see anything we do.The you's are those who speak English only, the we's are us bi-(and
>
> Who's the "we", and who's the "you", here?
> instance, that _your_ real name is Peter Bakker. So that's???
> at least one thing that _I_ can see _you_ doing, that you
> didn't see me see you doing! Maybe there's still another
> one-way mirror behind _you_! ;-D
>