Fun With Friends?
ZephyrZodiac:
Well, I wouldn't have said that about languages - I've met loads of Americans who were far better at speaking other languages than the Brits - not so inhibited, I think.
J. M. Pescado:
Traveller bias. If you're meeting Americans regularly, you're meeting the travellers, which would disproportionately speak a foreign language, particularly when bound for Europe. I'm not really much of a language person myself, although I do know how to shout useful phrases like "SURRENDER OR DIE!" in a dozen languages. I also speak the universal language of gun. But if the British aren't much for foreign languages either, that would explain why they're stuck with their backward American cousins.
ZephyrZodiac:
Now why on earth would you say "backward" JM?
Database:
I know a friend who can say "sh*t" in 10 different languages. ;D
Renatus:
He's calling Americans backwards because we are backwards in many ways. Languages, for example - actually go into the States and you'll find that the number of people who speak more than Bad English is shockingly low. A second language is not required unless one wants to get into some universities, and then only two years of it is required, which is just enough for the average person to remember the word for 'dog' ten years later. Americans are generally monoglots - and tend to be proud of it, absurdly. Some of the more stupid ones actually get offended at signs/packaging featuring Spanish as well as English.
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