Re: Linguistic Agonies

15 Nov 2005 11:57:37 -0800: "Dr. Jamshid Ibrahim" <Jdibrahim@xxxxxxx>:
in sci.lang:

>No, Ruud I speak many languages and all them are equally part of me
>and my world.

But only those you learnt from the cradle onwards are your native
languages. "Speaking" is not enough. I speak many languages too, some
reasonable, some crippled, but I have only one native language: Dutch.
I started getting acquinted with English and French at age 10, but
that is far too late to ever reach true native speaker status.

I suppose it is not essentially different in your case, or you must
have supernatural powers.

--
Ruud Harmsen - http://rudhar.com

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