Re: Re: Drake Re: FIC: Slayer Academy - LONG

[Tater <tater@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 02:20 PM 5/16/2003 +0200, you wrote:
>From: "Tater" <tater@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>Just jumping in here to address this French issue. French is the common
>language used by a good chunk of Africa, and most of the Caribbean.
>Probably something like 80% of Africans outside of Egypt speak French either
>as a first or second language. Certainly far more than speak any other
>language.
>
><<I thought about that, and agreed... then I looked it up, and behold, it's
>wrong.
>French is official language in 21 African countries (in several one of two),
>while English is of 20 countries, and a relation of population in these
>countries of 190 to 350 million, French:English. Btw, 191 million speak
>Arabic, though that includes Egypt. So French is the third most important
>language in Africa.
>
>Drake>>


Hmmm... okay. Guess I shouldn't have been too lazy to look that up to check
my facts. Then again, I'm a plant. I'm supposed to be lazy. :)


tater (Vegetables of the world unite!)