... men work hard and most speak 4 to 6 languages as they drive in the dog spikes and sing all-the-live-long-day type railroad songs, so the limitations/dearth of Melbournistan language skills means that Melbournistan and Mextoria both lag the average linguistic ability of the rest of the nation.
Tubb's mention of Marathi, Hindi, Gujarati and Irdu means that I am released from my NDA and can mention one of Turbine Industries rare failures (about which not many people know), and about which I was heretofore sworn to secrecy ..... and that is that one of TI's rare business failures was when they bought up 100% of Nepal as part of a corrupt deal with the Dali Lama, in order to harvest all of the lichen, and ended up cornering the world market.
However, except for a need in the perfume industry for lichen to be refined as a fixative, and in the pharmaceuticals & nutraceuticals game where usnic acid is extracted for use as a wound dressing, TI soon found that not everyone (it was classed as "bugger all" in the Board Report) gets turned on by a sizeable pack of moist lichen down their undies (although there are certainly some, NTTIAWWT) and TI soon gave Nepal back to be pillaged again by China.
However, Turbo kept a personal 1500 te lichen stash for use by consenting adults, and that was .......