Re: Tax the British because they have a language advantage over the EU


"abelard" <abelard3@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 13:49:59 -0000, "DVH" <dvh@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


"abelard" <abelard3@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:12:49 GMT, Svenne <tvaerskaegg@xxxxxxx> wrote:

On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 12:40:13 -0000, "DVH" <dvh@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Last month's European Day of Languages, the Council of Europe's
celebration
of linguistic diversity and language learning, has prompted a
controversial
proposal to compensate EU countries for the cost of having to learn
English
by taxing Britain and Ireland.

Foreigners should have to pay a fee for using English. It's not their
language, why should they get it for free?

seems reasonable...they have to pay royalties on songs....

but you could approach it like linux as open source to drive
all the crude local peasant patois out of the market

...or as a store of information, like money is a store of value.

of course 'new' labour is also working very hard to undermine
the value store of english by corrupting the language...

eg 'investment' = more waste....
'social' 'worker' means incompetent parasite....who doesn't do
much useful work and undermines both society and independence....
'benefits' means dole...

Indeed. Debauching the language.

and on and on...

Bad money will drive out good.

cf Orwell.


English is the dollar of the language world - the reserve language of most
developed countries.

very true...but can it stay that way with 'new' labour and the bbc?

regards

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