Worlds Greatest Ever Civilisation

[Iain]

(who usually uses that line to describe Melbourne.)

Mmmm, think I'd miss the opera and consorts in Qld, not to mention the restaurants and ski-ing (snow, the proper one).
And I forgot the 2 hour sunsets fly fishing for trout 2 minutes from home etc etc.

[Gumby]

That would have to be the chinese as 25% of the world are chinese.

and they form 100% of the people who write instruction manuals. :eek:

[bitingmidge]

fly fishing for trout 2 minutes from home etc etc.

You have to HUNT for food???? :eek: :eek: :eek:

We have shops the same distance from home!!!

P (This thread was going nowhere anyway!!)

[simon c]

and they form 100% of the people who write instruction manuals. :eek:

Oh, you're the one who reads unstruction manuals!

[Grunt]

Grunt,

I can't agree with you about the respective influence of the Brits and Americans in spreading English around the world. The American influence is relatively recent, since the advent of film and TV in the mid-20th Century. The British were spreading English around the world, especially in North America, India and Africa, and the Commonwealth countries, throughout the 17th to 20th Centuries. The American influence is mainly felt by people who learned English originally through the British influence, and who were therefore an audience for American films and TV. Before WWII, the Americans generally stayed in America, apart from a few imperial forays into places like the Phillipines, Puerto Rico, and American Samoa, and their culture had little effect on the rest of the world.

Yes, all the influence has been since WWII. The Brits certainly did spread English to the commonwealth countries but no further. China, Japan, Indonesia and the rest of Asia, Russia, All the European Countries, Latin America, the Middle East etc. now have large populations that speak English to some degree. Had the Pilgrams been the Dutch instead of the Poms the world would have Dutch as the second language not English.

[Sturdee]

Had the Pilgrams been the Dutch instead of the Poms the world would have Dutch as the second language not English.

And it would have been a better place as well. For they would never have allowed the seppos to bastardize the language.


Peter.

[Rusty]

Views expressed in the following etc. etc., but I think you'll see the relevance...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFr...510003,00.html

Happy and safe Easter to all.
Rus.

[echnidna]

Bob don’t forget mate, a lot of ginger.


It is so great to have made an impact on someone’s life.

Hmmm .... reckon it might flavour up a possum real good too!!!
What's the best species of possum to eat?

[echnidna]

The world's greatest civilisation cannot be reasonably attributed to any individual nation.
The technological and multicultural era we live in NOW must undoubtedly be the greatest civilisation. :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

[Iain]

You have to HUNT for food???? :eek: :eek: :eek:

We have shops the same distance from home!!!

P (This thread was going nowhere anyway!!)

But can you cast and catch it without being arrested for shoplifting

[bitingmidge]

But can you cast and catch it without being arrested for shoplifting

How long does it take to dry out your ugg boots though??


P

[ozwinner]

Let's face it, there's more culture in a tub of yoghurt!!

Cheers,

P (who usually uses that line to describe Perth.)

Now hang on there Midge.
You know Squizzy is all culture.

Al

[Grunt]

And .... The official national language of India is ..................English

It was. The official language is Hindi, however English is the official language of those states that didn't accept Hindi as the official language. India has 15 languages and 1600 dialects.
http://www.indianchild.com/linguistic_states_india.htm

[craigb]

Now hang on there Midge.
You know Squizzy is all culture.

Al

Geez Midge you've been hacked :eek:

[vsquizz]

Now hang on there Midge.
You know Squizzy is all culture.

Al

Yeah, right on Al, we are very suphi...sopissti...very sofist..sophusti.....smart over ere, an we hold our little pinkies out when we drink our beer too!

Cheers