Re: Western Canadian vowels (was Re: SoCal vowels)
From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
Date: | Sunday, May 13, 2001, 5:43 |
Frank George Valoczy scripsit:
> Hm. Am I a native speaker. I don't know. I was born in Vancouver. Promptly
> went to Hungary. Came back age 4 speaking only Hungarian and a few Russian
> songs...stayed till 6, learned English in that time. Went back to Hungary
> for a year, back to Canada for 3, to Yugoslavia for a year, back to Canada
> for good.
Lots of people don't have a native language, like my mother and Henry Kissinger.
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John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
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