Thread: News: "54% of all school pupils in Greater London do not speak English as first language"
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Old 05-05-2008, 03:43 PM   #16 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Robin View Post
Still not clever if they cant speak English though.

They are in an English speaking country and it is the lingua franca of the world. They would be better to speak the one (English) language than 40 others.
See the bolded implication.
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