sure Brian, if you say so… I don’t see how you could possibly pick up second language if you spend most of your time on Piggington… But if you say so. You definitely wouldn’t be able to handle Chinese… So try Spanish.

let me guess … Last year… You were trying to impress a Chinese woman. This year you are trying to impress a Latino woman????

I am surprised someone, as worldly and refined as you claim yourself to be, would not already have a foreign language under your grasp. Afterall, if I recall, it was a requirement in high school for 3 years of a foreign language as a condition for being considered for admission into almost all top rank schools, including Ivy League schools that apparently you think so highly of as part of the criteria to being refined and worldly… That’s the only reason why even I, as “narrow minded and parochial” as you think I am, took 3 years of Spanish in addition to my native fluency in Mandarin.

Didn’t you apply to one of them “refined” universities when you were in high school, considering you think it’s so critical for being so refined and scholarly? Didn’t you end up going to one of them “refined universities” where you learned all your “refinements and worldliness?”

Clearly, someone as refined , worldlt, and knowledgeable as yourself Brian would have already taken 3 years of a foreign language , no?