On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> I'd like to see that claim backed up a little. You're coming from
> Canada, and Quebec in particular, which is possibly the most
> universally bilingual place in the Americas.
Actually not. Officially bilingual countries like Canada and Belgium
are so because their citizens are in fact mostly monolingual. Actual
bilingualism is usually higher in countries with only one official
language.
> Trilingualism and more is I'm afraid just too
> much to ask of most people who aren't full-time language
> professionals or naturally gifted with languages.
In Europe and North America, yes. In India and Africa, it's downright
ordinary.
-- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore --Douglas Hofstadter
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