Re: USAGE: hate = jealous (was: Re: YAPT: Dutch ij and ui)

Roger Mills wrote:

> It's amazing that languages are still taught that way.  It's how I learned
> Spanish back in the 50s. Although I was #1 in my Spanish classes, when I
> stepped off the plane in Madrid I was utterly tongue-tied, and couldn't
> understand a word of what people were saying. Spanish speakers have often
> said that my spoken Span. is "bookish". (Though at the height of my fluency,
> I was immensely flattered when someone asked what country I came from!?)
All adult Icelanders were always praising my excellent Icelandic, but
a little girl spoke the truth: _Af hverju talar hann eins og bók_
"Why does he speak like a book?"
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/BP 8^)
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B.Philip Jonsson -- melroch at melroch dot se

         Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant!
                                             (Tacitus)

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