...Old d joke: What do you call a person who speaks several languages? Polyglot. Somebody who speaks two languages? Bilingual. How about someone who speaks only one language? American.有一个陈年的玩笑：你如何称呼会说几国语言的人?通晓多种语言者。
Is National Journal--or perhaps Cook's social circle or his home--really populated by such grim women that he'd have to worry about giving offense by retelling such an anodyne oldjoke?