X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,ef84650dd3e606e5 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-05 11:06:37 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!130.133.1.3!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!dialup027.picon.DE!not-for-mail From: Philip Newton Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: what is it? Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 20:07:26 +0200 Organization: very little Lines: 55 Message-ID: <1dtrrtkbdcehasbhnn4nabfmdptqt4u1ue@4ax.com> References: <3bb7a117$0$219$edfadb0f@dspool01.news.tele.dk> <3bb9ad77$0$80799$edfadb0f@dspool01.news.tele.dk> <3bba5852$0$269$edfadb0f@dspool01.news.tele.dk> <3iblrtsmh3df29rsikmnbmtkitdtsvmim7@4ax.com> Reply-To: "Philip 'Yes, that's my address' Newton" NNTP-Posting-Host: dialup027.picon.de (62.214.2.27) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1002305194 20219659 62.214.2.27 (16 [11583]) X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:8380 On Wed, 03 Oct 2001 12:41:52 +0200, "lastfuture (Peter Marquardt)" wrote: > wow you seem to be a language genius.. A little bit :) Languages fascinate me and I see to have a knack for picking up bits and pieces of languages fairly easily, and remembering them. > i wonder where you know all those things from, Just picked them up here and there. Read something somewhere, or heard it from someone, or just noticed a correspondence. > how old you are, 27 > what your native nationality is Not sure what you mean by that... I was born in Germany but have a British passport. So you could say I'm a native German but that's not the country whose citizenship I hold -- even though I've never lived in England. > and where you currently live... Germany. In the north, to be precise. My idiolect is fairly close to standard German, but is influenced a little by north-German-isms such as pronouncing "g" like "ch" ("Flugzeug" --> "Fluchzeug"; "Weg" --> "Weech"; "weg" --> "wech") and by some expressions from Plattdeutsch. > that might give us all some more insights. Don't know, but perhaps :) I grew up speaking English first and then started learning German when I was about three or four and started playing with other children. (At that point, my German mother switched from speaking English to me to German; my father continued speaking in English to me.) I went to an international school where I was educated through the English languge, so I grew up bilingually until I left school. I later learned French (at school) and Greek (by living there for two years), and also some Japanese (from evening school, but since it was only once a week, it wasn't as much as the other two languages). All of the rest I taught myself, so I don't know enough of other languages to be able to hold a real conversation in them. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton That really is my address; no need to remove anything to reply. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.