[AGL] Why 'merkans vote for the GOP

[Harry Edwards]

technically there IS no Chinese as a language. There are several forms 
of Chinese, including Mandarin etc. Can't remember the others. In India 
it's Hindi, Bengali, Tamil etc. These 2 countries account for a mere 2 
and a half billion people.                twisty

On May 6, 2006, at 8:10 AM, Frances Morey wrote:

> Okay, I'm guessing that Chinese is the most widely spoken native 
> language. Is it measured by the size of the population that speaks it? 
> English is mightly widespread because of our exported entertainment 
> production--one German told me that his mastery of English came from 
> listening to rock 'n' roll.
>  
> G'morning, Wayne,
> Austin has seen two stormy days, trees blown over, limbs down all over 
> town, and it is lightening again this morning. My little garden plants 
> survived and all the rain relieves me of having to water.
> Hope you are good. Keep on working to counter the ignorance penumbra 
> through teaching.
> Best,
> Frances
>
>
> Wayne Johnson <cadaobh at shentel.net> wrote:
>> Dumb people do dumb things.
>>  
>> Add Geography to the growing list of major intellectual non-events in 
>> the life of Young Americans.  [Critical thinking?  I didn't know 
>> criticals could think?  Aren't criticals just black grasshoppers?]
>>  
>> How can there be truly "free" elections when the voters don't know 
>> their ass from a hot rock.  Geography?  D'oh!  History? D'oh!  
>> Politics? D'oh, D'oh!  [Hey, he sounds like my old man, I will vote 
>> for him.  Oh, wasn't she on ER? I will vote for her.]
>>  
>> I mean like the really Important Things are like in the Mall, dude.  
>> Chill out.
>>  
>> ------------------------------------------
>>  
>> Thirty-three percent of respondents couldn't pinpoint Louisiana on a 
>> map. [I wonder how many people in LA can find their own state on the 
>> map.  Or for that matter Texas.]
>> Fewer than three in 10 think it important to know the locations of 
>> countries in the news and just 14 percent believe speaking another 
>> language is a necessary skill.  [No wonder some people thought the 
>> Sandanistas were going to invade El Paso.]
>> Two-thirds didn't know that the earthquake that killed 70,000 people 
>> in October 2005 occurred in Pakistan.
>> Six in 10 could not find Iraq on a map of the Middle East.  [My 
>> brother just got killed somewhere, dude.  Hey, is that an Xbox?]
>> Forty-seven percent could not find the Indian subcontinent on a map 
>> of Asia. [Bombay isn't if Florida?]
>> Seventy-five percent were unable to locate Israel on a map of the 
>> Middle East. [Drive due East from Gibraltar.  Oh, where is 
>> Gibraltar?]
>> Nearly three-quarters incorrectly named English as the most widely 
>> spoken native language. [Spanglish?]
>> Six in 10 did not know the border between North and South Korea is 
>> the most heavily fortified in the world. [Korea?  Isn't that in South 
>> America somewhere?  Oh, cool shoes, bro'!]
>> Thirty percent thought the most heavily fortified border was between 
>> the United States and Mexico. [Well, this will likely happen soon if 
>> the Minutemen and other patriotic racists get their way.]
>>
>>
>> Source: The Associated