Jonny Foreigner
I couldn't understand why people spoke different languages.

As I explained to my mum, if they see a chair and think "that's a chair" why woudl they then have to find another word for it? Why not just say "that's a chair"?

I was convinced everyone did [insert language] to english translation all the time in their heads.

5t.
(fivetide, Mon 23 Jan 2012, 16:23, 5 replies)

Ha, I once heard a little girl seaking French in Bangkok,
and thought, wow, that little girl is only about four and is fluent in French before realising she was French.
( The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Mon 23 Jan 2012, 17:22, closed)

I trust...
... this wasn't last week and you were, in fact, a nipper yourself.
(fivetide, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 13:30, closed)

A 70 year old man in Arkansas;
"If English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me."
(the other guy not the one that gave you coochie warts, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 2:43, closed)

I think that quote was a senator
at a conference about how to get more American college students to take up a foreign language. The beauty of it being, he was surrounded by language and linguistics professors.
( The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 5:48, closed)

I got that from a Bill Bryson book,
but after doing a bit of research, the quote has been attributed to so many people over the last two hundred years, it's probably an urban legend.
( The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 5:55, closed)