Vanity Fairest of all
Listening to the NPR interview of Dame Edna, you can not but wonder at her incredible ability for sarcasm and her profound insights.
However, Dame Edna fumbles in her advice about learning Spanish:
"Dear Torn, Forget Spanish. There’s nothing in that language worth reading except Don Quixote, and a quick listen to the CD of Man of La Mancha will take care of that. There was a poet named Garcia Lorca, but I’d leave him on the intellectual back burner if I were you. As for everyone’s speaking it, what twaddle! Who speaks it that you are really desperate to talk to? The help? Your leaf blower? Study French or German, where there are at least a few books worth reading, or, if you’re American, try English."
You have to learn Spanish! How else are you going to order fajitas or quesadillas when in a Mexican restaurant?
How else are you going to understand and be understood in Texas, California, Florida and New York?
Dame Edna fumbled this one.
Comments
Hell. My advice is to learn every language you can.
Posted by: Ailina | February 9, 2003 5:58 AM