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S. Isaac Dealey writes:
> See, he vouches for me. :)
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> > LOL yes you do have a where the hell are you from accent!
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: S. Isaac Dealey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 2:21 PM
> > To: CF-Community
> > Subject: Re: CF Salary Range
>
>
> >>> So... I'm studying in Paris and I can speak English,
> >>> German and Thai,
> >>> but I have a problem with french... heh :) Which of
> >>> course, brings
> >>> into question his skill with any languages he claims to
> >>> speak. I know
> >>> little bits of both spanish and french, but I don't
> >>> claim
> >>> to actually
> >>> _speak_ them... Not conversationally anyway... J'aime
> >>> parle francais
> >>> mais j'aller pas amis parle francais avec moi... and it
> >>> really is sort
> >>> of a "use it or lose it" sort of thing.
>
> >> Exactly, despite his doctorate.. or I guess his doctoral
> >> studies program in
> >> English, he was incomprehensible in the language, and
> >> couldn't understand
> >> Cockney well enough to order food in a store. You have to
> >> hear French
> >> students in an English class to knwo what I am talking
> >> about :) *They*
> >> understand each other and thereby reinforce all of the
> >> horrendous accents.
>
> > There's nothing worse than a deep-southern Texan trying to
> > speak
> > french... every consonant on the end of a word is not only
> > pronounced
> > but emphasized... <<shudder>> Luckily I grew up in Dallas
> > which is a
> > fairly metropolitan city and watching Sesame Street and
> > the Electric
> > Company which were filmed in Boston. My parents tell me I
> > had a boston
> > accent for a while when I was really small. Plus the
> > french classes in
> > 1st-4th grade which I think I mentioned before. Now I have
> > sort of a
> > "where the hell are you from" accent.
>
> >> How real-life is what they are learning? To be fair, I am
> >> sure he did in
> >> fact read English quite well, and maybe even write it.
>
> >> By the way, past a certain level it is sort of like
> >> riding
> >> a bicycle. There is very little call for French in New
> >> Mexico,
> >> but I can summon it up when necessary.
>
> > Great Spirit of Notre Dame, I summon thee!
>
> > Oh sorry... not that kind of summoning. :)
>
> > How did you find a CF job in New Mexico anyway? I used to
> > go to summer
> > camp in Ute Park, about 3 hrs north of Taos.
>
> >> But then I was pretty much immersed in it for years and
> >> years.
> >> But I have found I can remember my German and Japanese,
> >> given enough time
> >> and resources. But no, I probably could not order
> >> pastries
> >> in Japanese :)
> >> in German, maybe, if I didn't mind slaughtering the
> >> language... but then I
> >> am not a doctoral candidate in either language either :)
>
> > der cream puff ? heh :)
>
> > Sad... around here I probably know more people who can
> > order pastries
> > in Klingon than in German. ... sad sad...
>
>
> > "We have only one word in our language." ... "What?"...
> > "Exactly. I'm
> > the missions interpreter. I've learned every earth
> > language, except of
> > course Esperanto. You can tell that one's going nowhere."
>
>
> > Sorry... free association getting to me. :)
>
> > What what what?...
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> > s. isaac dealey 972-490-6624
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