When is a form real?
Mike Sangrey
msangrey at BlueFeltHat.org
Wed Aug 15 13:14:58 EDT 2001
"hefin jones" <hefinjones at hotmail.com> said:
> 1. The view of bilingualism advocated here is seriously flawed. True
> bilinguals don't privilege one language over the other(s) in their
> minds. In fact in certain contexts one can switch from one language
> to the other and back again without being especially conscious of
> doing so.
I should add to my previous comments that what I said should not
be construed to contradict Hefin's comment.
Someone, on this list in fact, told a story of a person speaking
in one language to her mother. She turned to her husband's brother
and spoke in English FULLY ASSUMING he had understood what she had
said to her mother.
--
Mike Sangrey
msangrey at BlueFeltHat.org
Landisburg, Pa.
"The first one last wins."
"A net of highly cohesive details reveals the truth."
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