Not just languages, dialects. Do you find yourself talking say regionally
accented Italian with someone who has a strong regional accent, and a more
BBC Italian (or is it RAI Italian) with someone who has that kind of
educated upper class accent?
suresh
-Original Message-
If you read the article, you see that it is making a distinction
between bi-lingual and bi-cultural. They are seeing a difference
between people who speak two languages but only identify with a single
culture, versus people who speak two languages and identify with two
cultures.
None of the
Suresh,
Not just languages, dialects.
Yes, of course.
Do you find yourself talking say regionally
accented Italian with someone who has
a strong regional accent ...
No. But sometimes it's fun to drop into dialect if and when there is
one that someone else and I can share.
(People from
Actually, Charles .. a lot of the dialect has cultural overtones as well
Hyderabadi hindi for example, if you ever get the chance to speak it, is
more or less like cockney English (there's just as much cultural reference
as there's a change in accent)
I'd speak it with my friends on a college
Giancarlo Livraghi wrote:
I don't think I have an accent, though sometimes people in the South
tell me that I sound northern. Most of the time
One of the most amusing things to happen to me is people in Southern Italy
telling me that the way I said common phrases like va bene sounded
On Monday 30 Jun 2008 12:43:14 pm ashok _ wrote:
Ah ha Doc... we do have something in common... I am an alumni of
Bishop's school poona too
Friggin heck! Of all the places to meet an alumnus.
We need to break into the old school song.
shiv
It's an inevitable result of the way TamBram (and the rest of Tamil)
society has grown. Centuries of using the ability to read and write as
their sole currency in the scheme of things, and using it to wield extreme
influences on society have made the Brahmins completely dependent on it.
The
Charles,
... a distinction between bi-lingual and bi-cultural.
... people who speak two languages but only identify
with a single culture, versus people who speak two
languages and identify with two cultures.
I don't want to clutter the list... but I think this is a relevant point.
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 4:52 AM, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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http://esciencenews.com/articles/2008/06/25/are.you.a.different.person.when.you.speak.a.different.language
Are you a different person when you speak a different language?
I don't know if I think differently, but I
