first lang test

Dan Sulani wrote:

> The test, as I heard once, is:
> A "first" lang is one that you, _when alone, by yourself_, automatically
>                     a.  count (or do arithmetic) in
>                     b.  cry in
>                     c.  pray in (or whatever you do in times of great
inner
> turmoil)
For me:
a. French
b. French
c. Anglo-Saxon.

The last is rather odd, but when I'm scared I repeat over and over "Erce
Erce, eorthan modor", which is an Old English prayer to the Goddess of the
Earth. The first two are the language I spoke exclusively (along with
Breton, apparantly, although I have no memory of it) until playschool.

Dan

-----------------------------------------------
Ka yokonáu iti báyan: "cas'alyá abhiyo".

Ka tso iti mantabayan: "yama zaláyá
alánekayam la s'alika, cas'alika; ka yama
yavarryekayan arannáam la vácika, labekayam
vácika, ka ali cas'alyeko vanotira."
-----------------------------------------------
Dan Jones