On 9 Oct, 10:36, The Natural Philosopher <t...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> Svenne wrote:
> > On Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:53:30 흽, Roger Dewhurst
> >  wrote:
>
> >> During the second world war I do not think that the English would have
> >> had any problem identifying themselves as English.  They were reasonably
> >> good too at identifying Germans pretending to be English.  If the
> >> English can recognise the English what does it matter if others cannot> >>  If there are people purporting to be English who cannot identify the
> >> English perhaps they should be living somewhere else.  From all that
> >> perhaps we can conclude, if you cannot identify an Englishman perhaps
> >> you are not one or the other person is not one either.
>
> > If those confused souls who not only cannot tell what English is but
> > deny the very existence of such a thing went to live in Spain or
> > Zimbabwe or Outer Mongolia or somewhere they would have a hard job
> > figuring out they were not in England because everybody around them
> > would be exactly the same as where they came from. They would have to
> > check on a GPS or something, but at least they wouldn't get homesick.

> You dont think speaking e.g. Spanish would be more of a give-away than
> the three heads on the dogs then?

Perhaps he wouldn't recognise Spanish, perhaps he might think it was
Urdu or Punjabi or any of the other English languages spoken by the
English in England.

Svenne