Re: Rating Languages
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, September 29, 2001, 14:32 |
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At 19:58 2001-09-27 -0700, Heather Rice wrote:
>I can't recall anything specific, but I seem to
>remember being asked "Where are you staying" a few
>times by non-native speakers of English. I too
>wondered at the semantical differences between live
>and stay, because it made me feel so awkward. I felt
>like answering "I'm not "staying" anywhere, I *live*
>at . . ." and every time they asked me, I kept having
>to remember to answer what they meant, not what they
>said (to my mind).
I have the same gut feeling as you have, altho I'm not a native speaker.
/BP 8^)>
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