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22/04/2009 21:21:13
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
 
 
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22/04/2009 19:30:41
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>>>>[update: now I see how ambiguous this can be... because Spartans wouldn't be capable of laconica brevitas if they were speaking English... so:]
>>>>
>>>>All of them did.
>>>
>>>Bzzzzt! Sorry, there are over 800 native American languages, and there is not a person in the U.S. I've ever heard of that speaks a language called 'native'.
>>>
>>>For example there are Apache speakers, Tlingit speakers, Tsalagi speakers, Inuktitut speakers, Haida speakers, Zuni speakers, Crow speakers, Shoshone speakers, Chinook speakers, Choctaw speakers, Chickasaw speakers, etc.
>>>
>>>You can search as long as you want, and you won't find anybody speaking 'native'.
>>
>>But everybody is a native speaker of something. Which is what I had in mind :).
>>
>>And of course there is no native language - if there was, the number of languages on Earth would be exactly two: 1) native, 2) foreign.
>>
>>BTW, not even a nice try. You won't find me having said "speakers of native". I did mention "native speakers".
>
>Don't mind me, I'm just being Dragan for a day. ;)

So, how does it feel? :)

back to same old

the first online autobiography, unfinished by design
What, me reckless? I'm full of recks!
Balkans, eh? Count them.
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