Tuesday, August 7, 2018

The Advantage of Being at the Epicenter of the Empire



We don't need to learn a foreign language.

The globe understands our language.
-RW  

11 comments:

  1. % of students learning the language of liberty: under 1% (how many attend Mises U?)

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  2. --- We don't need to learn a foreign language. ---

    True, a lot of English-speakers don't need to learn a foreign language, a fact that turns the canard that American culture is at risk of replacement because of immigrants, into a ridiculous paranoid fantasy.

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  3. Most Americans cant even speak English.

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    1. I can vouch for that ──I tried ordering a burger at A&W in Louisville. It was an (almost) impossible task. I was so frustrated I wanted to try sign language or something. I don't know what those kids were speaking but it barely registered as English.

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    2. You're in Scotts-Irish cultural territory. What you're hearing is a heavily Celticized version of English. Even what we now call Ebonics has it's roots in Scotland.

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  4. Lol. Someone should tell that to the hordes of mestizos flooding across the border. Most don't habla and will never bother to learn.

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    1. Re: Paul Hansen,

      ── Someone should tell that to the hordes of mestizos flooding across the border. ──

      Someone is already telling them, Trumpista: The Market.

      ── Most don't habla [sic] ──

      You're certainly NO slouch when it comes to illiteracy. Your requirement that people speak English immediately (immediately, I tell you!) is mesmerizing only because it is so incredibly imbecilic. People learn English very easily, especially after being bombarded by American music, television and technology, which is evidence, by the way, that you're also a liar. Today's immigrants, even the "illegulz" who lurk under your bed, waiting to castrate you or something, learn English at a faster rate than the immigrants who came 120 years ago from Europe.

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    2. Keep telling yourself that MS-13.

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    3. Nonsense.

      I used to drive a truck around California's Wine Country up in Sonoma and Napa. Roadside taco trucks were my usual lunch. More often than not there's a kid (like 10 or 11 years old)taking orders in English, then relaying them the cook (grandma) in Spanish. The kid in making change, dealing with customers.... learning all sorts of useful jobs skills. Meanwhile Johnny America is learning New Math down at the public school.

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    4. Re: Paul Hansen,

      ── Keep telling yourself that MS-13 ──

      Ha, ha ha! You're funny. A Trumpista, yes, but a funny one.

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  5. I studied Latin for 6 years. Today I am a chemist. In a couple years I will be a chemical engineer, but I don't feel like my time spent reading first hand accounts of important historical events in the language of the witnesses was wasted. I don't even think the time spent reading 2,000 year old love poetry was wasted.

    Learning a second language is good for your brain in the same way learning a musical instrument is good for your brain. It's mental pullups. Most people will never actually find themselves hanging from a cliff, but pullups get you in shape nonetheless.

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