On 7/2/2012 5:02 PM, pavane wrote:
> "Brooklyn1" <Gravesend1> wrote in message
> ...
>> Mark Thorazine wrote:
>>>
>>> At the Asian supermarket where I shop almost
>>> every day, the stockers seem to be about 100%
>>> Hispanic, while the checkers are about 50/50
>>> Hispanic and Asian. I find the Hispanic checkers
>>> tend to have a good command of English, while
>>> the Asians are more hit-and-miss. Perhaps the
>>> latter make up for it with Asian language skills
>>> or maybe they're cut some slack because they're
>>> somebody's cousin. Some of them don't seem to
>>> understand English at all.
>>
>> Asians don't need language skills... if they needed language skills
>> they'd have a real alphabet instead of etch-a-sketch pictures. Asians
>> are good at math... all Asians need to know is how to count money...
>> who do you think invented the abacus? LOL
>
> Egyptians, Sumerians and Babylonians, about 3000 years
> before the Chinese. Why do you ask?
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abacus
>
> pavane
>
>
Shelden is the only one left on aol and clearly their search feature is
really broken...