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Subject: [Leica] OT:How many languages do you speak?
From: Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com (Frank Dernie)
Date: Tue Nov 9 23:16:58 2004
References: <55C4C67BFAC2BEtgif@mbi.nifty.com> <02da01c4c688$d61f1670$0202a8c0@dadsoffice> <41914211.3010707@triad.rr.com>

I would imagine there are as many different words and accents in the 
Spanish as it has evolved in the ex-Spanish colonies as there are in 
the English as it has evolved in the ex-British colonies!
Frank

On 9 Nov, 2004, at 22:17, Dan Post wrote:

> Max Weisenfeld wrote:
>
>> First language:  English
>> Second:  Spanish (Castilian, for what it is worth - my Venezuelan 
>> friend laugh at my "lisp")
>> and a little bit of Hebrew.  (French, and Italian, by virtue of 
>> Spanish and a lot of arm waving, but I wouldn't count that as really 
>> "having" a language).
>>
>> So, 2.20, I would say.
>>
>> Max
>>
>>
>>
>> Total,
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Kumagai" <tgif@mbi.nifty.com>
>> To: <lug@leica-users.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 11:48 AM
>> Subject: [Leica] OT:How many languages do you speak?
>>
>>
>>> Hello LUG,
>>>
>>> I came up with the question, how many varieties of languages we 
>>> speak.
>>>
>>> My native language is (1) Japanese and I can speak (2) English almost
>>> without causing major misunderstandings, and poquitititito del (3)
>>> Espanol. (Me gusta que podemos ver unos usan esta idioma en LUG 
>>> list.)
>>> I tried Korean too but I gave up, just not enough time...
>>>
>>> So, I'd say 2.5 (counting Spanish and Korean combined as 0.5)
>>>
>>> ---
>>> Tomoyuki Kumagai, a.k.a. "Tom"
>>> http://www.kumasite.com/
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>>
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> Max-
> I laughed at your reference to the Castillian 'lisp'! Here in NC we 
> have an Hispanic community of some size, and I have tried to pick up 
> some 'Spanish' but like trying to correctly pronounce 'pedo' and 
> 'pero' so they don't either sound alike or each other, it can be 
> difficult! The Venezualan seem to say caballo as "cabayjo", the Cuban 
> speak machine gun fast and drop 's's all the time,
> And the words are different- Melocoton is peach in Spanish Spanish, 
> but peach is durazno in Mexican Spanish, and I found that in South and 
> Central America that there are about seven different words for 
> ''stapler".... Then the educators here wonder why the Hispanic kids 
> don't all seem to mix well when put together- after all, the DO speak 
> a common language! :o)
> I am in agreement with Mark Twain- to paraphrase, I'd rather decline 3 
> or four drinks (of single malt, to stay on topic) than one irregular 
> verb!
>
> Dan ( Ima gwine ter tote my poke fulla camera stuff wiff me, nex' 
> time!) Post
>
>
>
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Replies: Reply from luisripoll at telefonica.net (Luis Ripoll) ([Leica] OT:How many languages do you speak?)
In reply to: Message from tgif at mbi.nifty.com (Tom Kumagai) ([Leica] OT:How many languages do you speak?)
Message from max_weisenfeld at verizon.net (Max Weisenfeld) ([Leica] OT:How many languages do you speak?)
Message from dpost at triad.rr.com (Dan Post) ([Leica] OT:How many languages do you speak?)