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Re: OT: semi-OT: bilingual communication

From:Bryan Maloney <slimehoo@yahoo.com> <slimehoo@...>
Date:Friday, January 24, 2003, 5:15
--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Danny Wier <dawier@H...> wrote:

> Is it possible, or practical, for this to happen in the real world for > speakers of two more different languages? Like I was speaking
English to a
> Spanish speaker and he'd be speaking Spanish to me....
When I visited Disneyworld years ago, I had dinner at the German pavilion in Epcot Center. I spoke English, the waitress spoke German. We understood each other.

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Eamon Graham <robertg@...>