Re: The Ingredients of Victory


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Yes one can only wonder what the resultant might be if Clérambault
had
been
more circumspect and kept the majority of the reserve free for the
French
commander to call upon to fight Marlborough's attacks. Still it was
win
for
the good guy's and that's all that counts . :)

why are the anglo-allies anygooder than the french?

*anygooder* is an interesting word, is that southern States Ray ?
To answer your question Ray I am pure-blooded British, so the French,
were
the traditional enemies of most of my ancestors most of the time.
Excepting
of course the Catholic Irish ancestors who occasionally would dally
with
the
Spanish and were in the French pay as often as not . The Scottish
bit's
who
were possibly Catholic also, were usually either in open rebellion or
on
the
French side too , go figure.
But of course all that's in the past and now were just one big
phucking
happy family !
Truth be told I blame *all* my families little problems on the damn
Norman-French and their insistence on teaching FRench to *everyone* in
the
Brisish Isles!
And that Ray is why the French are the bad guy's !

:)

cheers......Jeff

i'm not british and can take a more impartial view.

as to teaching their language to others. nobody beat the english

The Chinese were prety darn good at it....they've just taken a
millenium or two off.

pretty much only chinese speak chinese.
everybody knows english.

I spent two years in Japan trying to understand Japanese who spoke
English, as taught to them by another Japanese who had learned from
another Japanese but none of them ever heard a native speaker. If you
got off the "script" all was lost.

on the english language newsgroups people post examples of english words and
usages from asian countries
some are pretty useful words and who knows, they might enter the general
lexicon.

i had a funny conversation with a jamaican one day with him needing
directions. we were both 'native english' speakers and we both ended up in
hysterics at our inability to get on the same page. distance and time can do
funny things to a language


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