[OT] command of English by non-native speakers

[Christopher Chan]

Samuel Thurston, III wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Ian L. Target <ian69 at comcast.net> wrote:.
>> I could be wrong, but I do not predict that basic spelling and grammar
>> skills and knowledge of simple mathematics will be obsolete in ten years.
> 
> The way economic conditions are right now, English language skills
> just might be.
> 
> How's your Mandarin?
> 


Will people just stuff it about Mandarin? All this talk about Mandarin 
just makes me sick. Is everybody going to have to go to China to speak 
to a few hundred thousand crooked millionaires and hundreds of millions 
of uneducated peasants (who, by the way, most probably speak some 
hideous accent like Haka which is something like half Mandarin and Half 
Cantonese) or are you going to get some of these chums into your local 
government and Mandarin as one of your official languages?

I doubt that even South Africa has Mandarin listed as one of their 
official languages. With China pouring billions into Africa, maybe 
Africans should learn Mandarin - so that they can understand the 
blooming despising remarks many Chinese make about them and show their 
'benefactors' out the door.

Sure people, go learn Mandarin so you can visit the land of the immoral 
which the great cannibalism-inciting Mao Zedong created with his 
'Cultural Revolution'.