Re: Bilingualism has ruined Canada but there is still hope.

From: Dylan Sung (dylanwhs.tsktsktsk_at_pacific.net.hk)
Date: 12/15/04 

Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 23:36:52 -0000

"Mxsmanic" <mxsmanic@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:pe81s01vqeqgbiku38f2m2lgtcsg8n329g@4ax.com...
> André Keshav writes:
>
>> This would imply that part of the population give up their stronger
>> language.
>
> If they are truly bilingual, they don't have a stronger language.
>

I'm bilingual. I use one language at home, and the other when I interact on
the internet. I'm fluent in both, yet my English is the stronger language of
the two, since I know more vocabulary in English than I do my home language.
For instance, I know all manner of wierd an wonderful technical stuff to do
with quantum physics and could bore the legs of a donkey about quantum
wells, wires and dots and the wave equations which define the containment
and transport of electrons, but have no equivalent vocabulary in my home
language. Am I bilingual?

Or are you saying, to be truly bilingual, both languages you speak must be
on the same exact level in terms of amount of vocabulary to express the
things you need for everyday existence?

Dyl.

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