Re: CHAT: General Question

On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Herman Miller wrote:

On Tue, 20 Mar 2001 20:14:47 EST, David Peterson
<DigitalScream@...> wrote:
>
> Since the whole issue of American and English speakers and
> Canadian and such came up, why doesn't everybody say where
> there from, what languages they speak, and something else of
> interest?
Born and raised in Salt Lake City, UT and living there now. I
speak German (the result of a 2-year Mormon mission and a
subsequent BA) and Dutch (exchange student at the University of
Tilburg), and can put together sentences in Shoshoni given
enough time and motivation (been doing real-life,
gettin'-paid-for-it field work on the language for the past 5
years).

Something else of interest. In the 5th grade, I memorized "Casey
at the Bat." I still know it. It has been a continual source of
inspiration to me and has molded the man I am today.

Dirk

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Dirk Elzinga                          dirk.elzinga@m.cc.utah.edu

"The strong craving for a simple formula
has been the undoing of linguists."               - Edward Sapir