Re: About linguistic (in)tolerance
| From: | Orjan Johansen <oerjan@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, March 28, 1999, 20:39 |
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On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, John Cowan wrote:
> According to the book, "the queen of affectations" is that of
> pretending to have forgotten your own language.
Who's pretending? It happens frighteningly often that I can only remembe=
r
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.
Greetings,
=D8rjan.