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Re: About linguistic (in)tolerance

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Monday, March 29, 1999, 1:30
Orjan Johansen scripsit:

> Who's pretending? It happens frighteningly often that I can only remember > the English word for something but not the Norwegian one. Although I > think the opposite still happens more commonly. Of course it depends > heavily on the subject matter.
Sure. I know plenty of people who do arithmetic in one language and higher maths in another, because they changed countries in their teens. Then there are the people like Henry Kissinger, whose American accent in his German is as bad, or worse, than the German accent in his English. (My mother was also in this position, though not as severely.) -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org e'osai ko sarji la lojban.