Thank you
Btw - I'm the youngest of 5 and make absolute oodles of money ;)

Ohh and hello * LOL*

Aaaah but you have an English wife.
I know the English.
They fight dirty.
And think dirty...

Hello! backatcha anyway.
Send me a bar of chocloate or a cuckoo clock sometime.
(I'm technically European, I am allowed to make crass generalisations)

sundae - people from the midwest of the US say please and thank you all the time.

We're the friendly Americans! You're prolly getting a lot of a*holes from the coasts. ;)

I'se gonna say: I'm all about please and thank you, thank you very much. But Bri's right, you have some dubious coasties running around, probably with mucho expendable cash who don't feel they HAVE to say please and thank you, never having worked behind a cash register or the like. ;)

Youze guyz are coastists!:p:

OH, I know more Spanish (grassy ass, means thank you) and some German (donkey shit, means...um, thank you again?)

Well we didn't mean YOU, spexx. :) Some of my best friends are coasties. ;)

I speak redneck, hillbilly, hippie, jive, wigger, Texan, a smattering of urban, and Merkin.

I do not speak or understand politics, religion, or bullshit.

six years of French study, left unused for so long it's all gone now.

Used to be very good with languages as a kid. Have long since forgotten most of the French I learned though, and the Spanish. Learned some German in my 20s and have forgotten most of that too *laughs*

Why, thank you very much.:)

Spexx is ok. He's our coastie :p

Spanish, spanish, and more spanish. I'm not fluent by any means, but I can understand more than I can come up with on the fly, and I can almost always reorganize whatever I need to say using words I do know.

I think I've mentioned this before, but... way back when I worked in pizza delivery, about once a night we'd have a Spanish-only customer call in. Our boss would speak to them in English, but with a painfully stereotyped, drawn out Spanish accent. "Joo wanna peeesa por deeliberry, mang?" And I swear to god, most of them were able to understand.

Sir, you repeat yourself.

I speak English, Strayan, some German and some Japanese.

Quite a lot of Japanese just is English with an accent. They even use a special phonetic script (katakana) to write foreign loan words, so they're easy to pick out.

Sando................Sandwich
Digi-Cam............Digitial Camera
Furatto Sheetsu....Flat Sheets
Pirro keisu...........Pillow case

Spanish is at present strongest from at-least-weekly practice. Russian is still fairly solid, French now the weakest.