Re: Yet another reason to hate Yahoo

From: Captain Infinity (Infinity_at_world.std.com)
Date: 12/24/04 

Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 14:08:47 -0500

The Time Has Come, James H. Hood said
To Talk Of Many Things...

>> Well, I'll just say that you better brush up on your Spanish, my man,
>> because unless you can stop the wind that may be the outcome.
>
>Not going to happen. A century-and-a-half of experience in the Southwest
>has solidly proven that in the overwhelming number of cases, the
>grandchildren of the immigrants are monolingual English speakers.

It's been scientifically proven that English is the innate language of
the human brain. No matter what language is taught to a child as it
grows up, that language has to "overlay" the English that the brain is
born to think in. If a child is raised without hearing or reading any
language at all his brain will still think in English. So it's no
surprise that offspring of immigrants eventually speak English.
Eventually, though it may take quite a bit of time, the entire
population of Earth will speak English.

And on that day, my friends, there will be Peace On Earth, Good Will To
All Mankind, and A Chicken In Every Pot.

**
Captain Infinity
 ...I'm a figment of my own imagination

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