Re: English Language in Paris
 

Following up to Martin <[email protected]> :

> The nearer we got the harder it rained.

sounds about right to me.
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Re: English Language in Paris
 

Following up to Martin <[email protected]> :

> Isn't Mixi's message to
>the free world that all French people are monoglot stupid and poor?

damn! I forgot!
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Re: English Language in Paris
 

On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 12:43:59 +0200, Tim C. <[email protected]> wrote:

>Following up to Martin <[email protected]> :
>
>>On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 09:38:56 +0200, Tim C. <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>Following up to Mxsmanic <[email protected]> :
>>>
>>>>Tim C. writes:
>>>>
>>>>> So your:
>>>>> "What I notice about people who were raised bilingual is that they have no
>>>>> accents, but they still confuse the two languages in many situations. "
>>>>> people were actually "code-switching".
>>>>
>>>>Yes. Good!
>>>
>>>So, to be clear: confusing two languages is code-switching, and
>>>code-switching is confusing languages?
>>
>>So where do my kids and their friends fit into the Mixi's Curious World of
>>Multilinguals Theme Park(TM) (located close to Ripley's World)?

Ripley's Believe It Or Not Museum! http://www.staugustine-ripleys.com/
>
>Buggered if I know.
>But in the real world(tm) they sound perfectly normal.

Unlike those speaking Parisian Argot, who he mistakes for aliens.
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Re: English Language in Paris
 

Following up to Martin <[email protected]> :

>Unlike those speaking Parisian Argot, who he mistakes for aliens.

He probably thinks they're just speaking very poor English.
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Re: English Language in Paris
 

On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 13:04:04 +0200, Tim C. <[email protected]> wrote:

>Following up to Martin <[email protected]> :
>
>>Unlike those speaking Parisian Argot, who he mistakes for aliens.
>
>He probably thinks they're just speaking very poor English.

LOL

or his former students.

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Martin

Re: English Language in Paris
 

Tim C. writes:

> Even though it only takes a few minutes to understand?

Yes. Some people are stupid, and stupidity is uncorrelated with age.

Re: English Language in Paris
 

Tim C. writes:

> So, to be clear: confusing two languages is code-switching, and
> code-switching is confusing languages?

Code-switching is one form of confusion between languages.

Re: English Language in Paris
 

Make credence recognised that on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:07:05 +0200,
Mxsmanic <[email protected]> has scripted:

>Doesn't Frequently Mop writes:
>
>> Yes there is. It's the ability to distinguish relevant from
>> irrelevant.
>
>But this depends on perspective.

I think this means you agree that there is common sense.

>Stupid people are like people who stand at a fork in the road and say "take
>the west road to get there," and then wonder why smart people seem to be
>confused. Smart people, however, have a large map, and there are many roads
>on the map that lead more or less west--almost all of which are invisible to
>the stupid person in the fork of the road. Stupid people assume that there is
>only one possibility because they see only one possibility. Smart people see
>many possibilities and find it hard to guess which of them has been
>arbitrarily discovered by the stupid people.

I have no idea how this relates to the discourse.
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Re: English Language in Paris
 

Doesn't Frequently Mop writes:

> I have no idea how this relates to the discourse.

I thought my illustration alone was sufficient, but thanks.

Re: English Language in Paris
 

Make credence recognised that on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 21:53:31 +0200,
Mxsmanic <[email protected]> has scripted:

>Doesn't Frequently Mop writes:
>
>> I have no idea how this relates to the discourse.
>
>I thought my illustration alone was sufficient, but thanks.

No problem. Pity you don't accept help more often.
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