Re: Connglish
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, November 20, 2006, 18:55 |
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On 11/20/06, Carsten Becker <carbeck@...> wrote:
> As for me, I'm monolingual.
No, you're not. "Monolingual" means "able to speak only one
language", which is clearly not the case with you since you converse
fluently in English as well as German. You may not have been *raised*
bilingually, but that doesn't stop you from being bilingual (or
multilingual) now.
> Well, the official language here in Germany is German of
> course, but that doesn't keep the many Turkish, and Russian
> immigrants from speaking their respective native languages,
> also in the public. Official stuff is only in German,
> though.
Sure, I just don't understand why now, after 230 years, the US
suddenly needs to make English official. Is English endangered? I
think not.
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>