As Talleyrand once said: "An important art of politicians is to find new names for institutions which under old names have become odious to the public."
Well, if you add up the number of speakers of second languages according to this page, and assume anybody speaks at least one language as their first one, you'll end up with almost exactly 1.4 as the average number of languages any given human speaks.That's the lower bound, though, as I only added up second languages where the number of speakers is at least one million, and Wikipedia doesn't list many more anyway.
Wow, really?Quotas were introduced in the Stalinist USSR at one point in the 1930s, I think. Before that, you had to prove that you were innocent to have a shot at escaping imprisonment. Before THAT, authorities had to prove you did something wrong (they almost always found something, though).Both of these early approaches were simply too inefficient to man the gulags and run the country into the ground, I guess.
I guess they didn't pay heed to what John Morley stated more than 100 years ago:"Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders."
It's not make-a-wish. Most of the time, you have to vote for the lesser evil.
Is that another example of forcible impregnation?