Re: Let's talk about langages (Advice/Help)

From: Icono Clast (IClast_at_JPS.Net)
Date: 08/19/04 

Date: 19 Aug 2004 02:22:34 -0700

LEE Sau Dan <danlee@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
> I don't think it makes any sense to watch a Hollywood
> film in a dubbed language which I'm less familiar with than English.
> (I'm more familiar with British English than American, though.) I
> have to catch the occasional time slots where the local German cinemas
> would show an "o.V." (original version).

In Germany, I met a young man (well, my age at the time) who spoke
excellent English with good grammar, excellent pronunciation and
accent, and an enormous vocabulary. He claimed he "learned from the
movies". He was also a voracious reader. During the month or so we
lived in the same dormitory, only once did he ask me to define a word.
I could not. He was reading science fiction; the word had been created
by the author.
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