Re: Language changes, spelling reform (was Conlangea Dreaming)

On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 11:10:26PM -0400, Robert Hailman wrote:
[snip]
> I've never encountered someone who was (to my knowledge) speaking
> Korean, tho that's more because I never bother to find out what
> languages people are speaking more so than it's because there are no
> Koreans in Toronto, I'm sure there are quite a few. I'd like to learn
> more about Korean, I should add it to my list of "Languages I Want to
> Know, but Probably Will Never Learn", where it will be accompanied by
> Polish, Icelandic, Finnish, Swedish & Japanese.
[snip]

Hmm. There's a Korea-town in Toronto, where Korean is definitely spoken by
lots and lotsa people every day... and there are a lot of Korean-speaking
people around Toronto in general, too. I happen to be living with a bunch
of 'em :-)

But I understand why you'd think it wasn't spoken if you don't know it...
I never realized that a lot of people in Kensington Market speaks
Portuguese until a friend who spoke Portuguese clued me in to that fact.
I just knew they were speaking *some* language I didn't know; never
thought it'd be Portuguese! :-)


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