Perspective on Distance

Lives in the Lotus Blossom, Chapter 24: Terry McCassie? Now that's a Bus! Allah's Go-Go Girls.

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January 28th 2008
My grandfather, on the rare occasions when he would talk about WW I, sometimes used the expression "parlez-vous the ding-dong". Unilingual Canadian soldiers in France and Belgium often were asked "parlez-vous francais?", from which arose "parlez-vous the ding-dong" as an idiom to mean "the ability to speak another language". Well, I could live in Taiwan the rest of my life and never parlez-vou ... read more

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During the late 18th and 19th centuries, Great Britain established colonies and protectorates in the area of current Malaysia; these were occupied by Japan from 1942 to 1945. In 1948, the British-ruled territories on the Malay Peninsula formed the Fe... ... read more