Re: Conlanging skills? (was Re: Myers-Briggs Types and stuff.)
| From: | Sylvia Sotomayor <sylvia1@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, September 27, 1998, 17:39 |
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At 10:59 AM 9/27/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Sylvia Sotomayor wrote:
[bad at vocabulary, good at syntax, and Laurie's bad at phonology especially.]
>a language at an elementary level. Can't most people, even those who are
>not tutored in languages or linguistics, get a feel that they are
>listening to two different foreign languages rather than one, even if
>they have no knowledge of either? Sylvia, maybe that's what was
>happening when you had trouble explaining Kelenj to your fellow student?
>
Possibly. it was so long ago, that I can't remember.
I'm fairly good at phonology. Within reason, I suppose. I pronounce Spanish
far better than I speak it, and my German pronunciation is so on the money
people overlook my small grammatical and vocabulary errors.
Sylvia Sotomayor
sylvia1@ix.netcom.com
http://pw2.netcom.com/~sylvia1/