Re: [wolfrunners] Languages & SF/F (fwd)

On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, Nik Taylor wrote:

> An Hispanic acquaintance of mine related a personal story about when he
> was speaking in Spanish to a friend of his, and someone actually walked
> up to them and told them something to the effect of "You're in America,
> speak American"!
And if English (Jacobean English at that) was good enough for the
prophet Isaiah and the Apostle Paul, it's good enough for me!

> Personally, I like to hear foreign languages,
> especially tonal ones, something about it just intrigues me, even tho I
> have no idea what's being said.  :-)
Same here; I also think it's cool to be able to recognize them.

--
John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
C'est la` pourtant que se livre le sens du dire, de ce que, s'y conjuguant
le nyania qui bruit des sexes en compagnie, il supplee a ce qu'entre eux,
de rapport nyait pas.               -- Jacques Lacan, "L'Etourdit"