Re: CHAT: silly names, prepositions

CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>Now that makes me curious...does anybody else apply the syntactical rules
>of their mother tongue to others they speak at an almost mother tongue
>level? (I mean like, someone who is Canadian or American born but whose
>first language is not English or French).
Probably not as good an example of yours, but i'll often hear my father
say things like "close the light",  which is something quite common that
other Filipinos will do (my father is American born, and even though he
spoke english growing up, and really only listening to my grandmother and
father speak, he picked up their speech habits). My grandmother does the
same also.

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Yours truly,

Cesar Javier Jaime Garcia

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