[Sca-cooks] globetrotting

[John Husvar]

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From: "Philippa Alderton" <phlip_u at yahoo.com>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 1:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] globetrotting


> the only language I couls speak and survive in, if
> necessary, is French. It's not because I'm
> particularly insular in my outlook, It's because _I _
> DON'T_ HAVE_ ANYONE_ TO_TALK TO!!!!!!
>
> The last time I took a foreign language class was in
> 1970, but I still remember enough to get by in French,
> and thanks to the 'Net and SCA, I've been working with
> and in other languages enough to read them
> comfortably. But there is simply no reason for me to
> talk to non-English speakers. In the last 30+ years,
> once, at an SCA party, I ran into a lady from Italy
> who spoke only Italian and French, and taught Latin.
> We got along fine in French, but the Latin didn't make
> it- she was speaking it with an Italian consonant and
> vowel shift, and I was working from an American vowel
> and consonant shift.
>
> Americans don't speak other languages because we don't
> have opportunities to, not because we don't want to.
>
> Phlip

Oui! Q'elle a dit! (er something. been a long time.)


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