<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Michael Richter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ttmrichter@gmail.com" target="_blank">ttmrichter@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div>On 22 October 2012 23:46, David Mercer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dmercer@gmail.com" target="_blank">dmercer@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
>From personal experience, I cannot imagine a language superior to English. </blockquote></div><div><br>What. A. Bunch. Of. Pure. Twaddle.<br></div></div></blockquote></div><br>I felt that that statement -- and David's entire mail -- was tongue-firmly-in-cheek.<br>
If anything he was only making fun of his own inability to learn new languages.<br>In case it helps to clarify (and parameterize?) there is joke that does the rounds in India. [BTW Sardarjis are commonly the butt of jokes here in which they cooperate willingly]<br>
<br>Sardarji just back from England -- going ga-ga about the wonders there.<br>"So, What was the most wonderful thing about England, Sardarji?"<br>Sardarji: The children!<br>What about them?<br>Sardarji: They speak English from the time they are born; I can't speak it after 40 years!<br>
<br>David was making the same point just with some inversions<br>