Re: Learning a language

From: AlexB (alexB_at_comcast.net)
Date: 06/14/04 

Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 15:18:27 -0400

"Eugene Holman" <holman@elo.helsinki.fi> wrote in message news:holman->
> Elaborating their own norms for English would also have given the slaves
> the elements of a new social identity.

What do you mean by that? Could you rephrase it in a plain English. What
does it mean "elaborating their own norms for English?" What norms?
Grammatical norms of their previous language? How could they be elaborated
for English? I am beginning to get a feeling that making vague statements is
a norm in your profession. Or perhaps it is an idiom of sorts? Don't bother
answering if you are making a sarcastic remark in here. Then it "makes
sense."

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