 | | Re: Where did you lot spring from?) —Bram Lambrecht
| | | | (...) LOL! Ever noticed, even on LUGNET, that many of the non-native speakers of English use better grammer than quite a few Americans? Every now and then, some obscure idiom slips in, but otherwise, I must commend you ESLers on your proficiency[1]! (...) (25 years ago, 3-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general)
| | | | | | | | | | Re: Where did you lot spring from?) —Lindsay Frederick Braun
| | | | | <!!!Potentially Offensive Joke About Language Proficiency Alert!!!> (heh) (...) As the joke goes, if you know three languages, you're trilingual. If you know two languages, you're bilingual. If you know one language, you're English. If you know no (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Where did you lot spring from?) —Shiri Dori
| | | | | | (...) Hehe... #4: Dutch #3: Spanish #2: German #1: English Lindsay... You know you're up late when you can't count <grin, duck and run> -Shiri (25 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Where did you lot spring from?) —Lindsay Frederick Braun
| | | | | | | (...) No, no, no. I meant #1 in terms of the first language he learned to speak. Sheesh. ;) And who's up late?!? best LFB FUT->o-t.fun (25 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Where did you lot spring from?) —Susan Hoover
| | | | | | | | (...) [Bram's words below] (...) My guess (in the order he learned to speak them) is: 1. Dutch 2. German 3. Spanish 4. English (25 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Where did you lot spring from?) —Shiri Dori
| | | | | | | (...) Yeah, right, I'm *sure* that's what you meant... <mutters under breath> trying to cover for yourself <\mutter> (hey, we're in .fun now. I'm allowed ;-) (...) Shhhh! Shucks, ya got me... just don't tell my parents ;) -Shiri (25 years ago, 6-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Where did you lot spring from?) —Bram Lambrecht
| | | | | (...) I was born in Belgium to two Belgian parents. Then, in Argentina, I learned to speak Dutch and Spanish at the same time (probably a bastardization of both). At age 2.5, I moved to Germany, where I spoke German at school, but refused to speak (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.people)
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