If it weren't completely OT, I'd love to post some of the things my American college students write in English class. And, as you say, for most of them English is the only language they've got. --Ruth Anne Baumgartner scholar gypsy and amateur costumer
-----Original Message----- >From: Land of Oz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: May 6, 2008 1:01 PM >To: Historical Costume <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [h-cost] Languages > >Bjarne, I *never* make fun of anyone who speaks more than one language! but >I do get a chuckle out of the occasional malaprop. I only speak the one I >was born to and I admire anyone who can communicate in more than one >language. > >My mother speaks 4 fluently and can get along in two others. Her native >language is French and I can limp along a little, but my cousins were >terribly amused to find that I had HORSE on my head, not hair. or was it >hat? > >Anyway, you do just fine in English -- far better than most of the people on >this list could do in Danish, I'd guess. Don't let it bother you if we >sometimes get a smile from something you wrote -- A smile a day is healthy! > >Denise >Iowa > >_______________________________________________ >h-costume mailing list >h-costume@mail.indra.com >http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
