tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7823625636675642409.post552438496584481493..comments2024-03-14T04:07:39.792-07:00Comments on Earl Pomerantz: Just Thinking...: "Out To Lunch"Earl Pomerantzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16963705121297866334noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7823625636675642409.post-65284502376784709192015-11-11T19:17:13.816-08:002015-11-11T19:17:13.816-08:00I'll throw you a little more. Papua New Guine...I'll throw you a little more. Papua New Guinea has over 800 languages and that was from a time when they only had 3-4 million people here. In the province I work in there are over 130 individual languages alone for about 300,000 people (now grown to about 500,000).<br /><br />They have three official languages, English, Tok Pisin (pigin) and I can never remember the third, something like Meru.<br /><br />Basically, most of them speak three languages to a certain extent, english (to some level), Tok Pisin mainly, the highlanders use the other one(Meru) and their own village dialect.<br /><br />When I was running the hotel with about 60 staff, I think there was at least 20 individual languages besides Tok Pisin (which means Talk Pigin) and English.<br /><br />General staff meetings were not common!<br />cheers<br />DaveAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7823625636675642409.post-35283061489102821402015-11-11T17:46:49.461-08:002015-11-11T17:46:49.461-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.FFShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12957594809079628577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7823625636675642409.post-79377244835009791292015-11-11T08:28:19.462-08:002015-11-11T08:28:19.462-08:00I love the idea that they were speaking in patios ...I love the idea that they were speaking in patios instead of a patois.<br /><br />They're so lucky you're not me: I'd have wanted to tell them about the articles I've written explaining the physcis of firewalking. It's not at all a mind over matter thing.<br /><br />wgWendy M. Grossmanhttp://www.pelicancrossing.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7823625636675642409.post-35129128687800910872015-11-11T04:49:08.043-08:002015-11-11T04:49:08.043-08:00Here's a little link for you re: "In Flan...Here's a little link for you re: "In Flanders' Fields" on the news today 'up here'.<br /><br />http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/in-flanders-fields-1.3312135Pidgenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7823625636675642409.post-42007440301060428492015-11-11T04:46:39.393-08:002015-11-11T04:46:39.393-08:00Let's hope the Icelandeers saw a few more '...Let's hope the Icelandeers saw a few more 'sites' in LA than the conference. To come so far and miss Disneyland or Universal Studios...or, on the other hand, the Getty and Concert Hall, not to mention your own, special Santa Monica Pier.<br /> Although....<br />Your buddy and I once stopped in Rochester NY to see the Kodak/Eastman museum/house and found ourselves at a quaint B&B where the other guests, from New Zealand, were attending a "spiritualist's convention" (they see dead people and talk to them, etc.). When we asked them if they planned to pop over to see Niagara Falls...a mere hour away...they said they didn't have time!Pidgehttp://pidgygordon.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com