Re: CHAT: Lg prefs (was: Re: Blandness)
| From: | jesse stephen bangs <jaspax@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, April 5, 2001, 20:28 |
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dirk elzinga sikayal:
> Hey.
>
> Regarding language preferences. You all don't know what you're
> missing by not having heard clean, crisp Comanche or the soft
> gentle murmur of Shoshoni. Absolutely delightful. Get out of
> Europe and explore the world!
Hear, hear!
Although the Native American languages I've heard have been detestable, I
adore Tagalog and intend to learn it, as well as Hebrew and hopefully some
other wonderful non-European languages.
Jesse S. Bangs jaspax@u.washington.edu
"If you look at a thing nine hundred and ninety-nine times, you are
perfectly safe; if you look at it the thousandth time, you are in
frightful danger of seeing it for the first time."
--G.K. Chesterton
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