Re: CHAT: Lg prefs (was: Re: Blandness)

In a message dated 4/5/01 7:35:04 PM, Barry_Garcia@MONTEREY.EDU writes:

<< >I've never liked the sound of the (modern) Romance languages. But there

>may be some bias against Spanish. Not against Spanish speaking people. But
>In my high school we had a choice of Spanish, German, or French. 90% of
>the people took Spanish. Consequently, since I didn't like 90% of the
>people in my high school I tried to take anything else (which turnrd out
>to be German after a spectacularly unsuccesful initial effort at French).
>They made fun of the six of us in German class, called us Nazis and such.
>So Spanish always sounds like the language of all the people in my high
>school I thankfully don't have to spend time with any more.

Odd, very odd. I cant comprehend that kind of attitude. In my HS, people

took german, french, spanish, or italian. No one ever had any associations

with any of the languages like that. It was just something you took for

the requirements. >>

I had the exact same experience as the first paragraph.  Yet, the only reason
I took Spanish was because, at the time, only two foreign languages were
offered at my high school, and those were Spanish and German, and I hated
German (still do, mostly).  The next year they added French (the language I
wanted).  But yeah, people who take German are called Nazis at my school too.
 Maybe because everybody at the school I went to was blond haired, blue-eyed.
 And maybe because some of them were skinheads.  Who knows?

-David