Re: OT: Official language post
| From: | Rachel Klippenstein <estel_telcontar@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, March 29, 2003, 19:05 |
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--- Adam Walker <carrajena@...> wrote:
>Has anyone (English L1) else
> found it astounding how much easier it is to
> decipher a text in an unfamilar Romance lang than a
> text in an unfamiliar Germanic lang? Perhaps I
> should first ask, do others find it easier to
> decipher Romance?
>
> Adam
I find it easier to decipher Germanic languages than
Romance ones. That probably has to do with the fact
that I have studied quite a bit of German and also
some Swedish and Old English, but essentially no
Romance languages, so I have more Germanic background
to draw on.
Rachel
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