[ExI] How PISA surveys systematically overestimate Finland

[spike]

>... On Behalf Of Dan
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>> What do you call someone who can speak 1 language?  English.


>...I thought the correct answer was "American." :)

>...But, more seriously, one reason I've heard offered up for this is that
English, because of its peculiar history, is vastly different from its
closet relatives in a way that, say, most other European languages
aren't...Dan

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Being a poster-child example of an English-as-only-language speaker, I have
often wondered why it is we have so many different words for the same thing.
Seems like such a waste of perfectly good neurons to remember them all.
Spanish doesn't seem to have that as much.  So my question is, can you have
crossword puzzles in Spanish?  I mean the tight 15x15s, like you see in our
daily newspapers, full grid with about 20 blackouts on the 225 square grid.

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