Re: Connglish
| From: | Carsten Becker <carbeck@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, November 20, 2006, 19:24 |
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On Mon, 20 Nov 2006 13:54:55 -0500, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:
>On 11/20/06, Carsten Becker <carbeck@...> wrote:
>> As for me, I'm monolingual.
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>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.
Ah, OK. I misunderstood the term then. Thanks for clearing that up :-)
>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.
Agreed.
C.