Re: CHAT: Multi-Lingos

Oskar Gudlaugsson wrote:
>
> >From: callanish <callanish@...>
> >Subject: Multi-Lingos
> >Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 11:00:17 -0400
>
>
> >I say we should make everyone in the world learn Icelandic and make that
> >the
> >"official Germanic language of the world" ;-)
>
> Hehe. Icelandic should be the working language of Neo-Nazis International
> (if that exists); it's the Germanic übermensch "pure" language that all the
> chauvinists love. Rasmus Rask, the great 19th century Danish linguist,
> claimed he learnt Icelandic "to learn to think" (it's the old "classical
> languages are more logical" dogma). I, personally, am sick of
> linguo-centrism in Iceland and the indoctrination present in our school
> system.
Why, what's the story with the school system?  IME European school
systems are better about teaching foreign languages than most American
ones.

Nicole