Re: The Truth is out about the Irish, Welsh, Scotch, Mamx, Cornish, and Bretons

"Conway Caine" <ccaine@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "allan connochie" <conncohies@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "Conway Caine" <ccaine@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> "allan connochie" <allan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>> "Chess One" <innes8@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>>>> >> > Why say English here? Why not say British?
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>>>>> the question is, British what? language or culture?
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>>>> People!  That is what was being talked about. Someone suggested that 
>>>> the English weren't good at foreign languages. Someone else wondered 
>>>> why the English were being singled out.
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>>> Speaking of which, I've watched a couple of episodes of "The 
>>> Eastenders".
>>> What language are they speaking? Certainly not English.
>>> I had to use closed captions to follow the dialog.
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>> Aye if Eastenders has been about in the 60s then maybe Dick Van Dyke 
>> would have dome a better job on his Cockney chimney sweep accent!
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> Yes but had he spoken in some incomprehensible tongue, would the film
made 
> a dime?

I thought he did speak in an incomprehensible tongue.........just not an 
authentic one :-)

Allan