Re: CHAT: Anglification (was Re: My Conlang Museum in Netscape too)

taliesin the storyteller wrote:
<snip a lot of stuff about swedish & norwegian, etc.>
> Those of you that has English as L1 don't know how fortunate you are,
> you have really no idea. I can picture a future social divide here,
> until English prevails and Norwegian is crushed; that of an underclass
> of people that can't tackle an L2 (yes there are ppl who can only ever
> learn one language),
Is that really true?  Don't mean to sound ignorant, but my impression
was that having English as L1 just made people lazy about learning other
languages.  I mean, in America it seems pretty special to be fluent in
more than two languages, while in lots of other places around the world
it seems almost commonplace.  I always thought this was because people
made it too easy on English speakers  ;)  But are there really people
who can never ever learn another language?  (I think my mother may be
one of those if true...)

Nicole
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