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Dragan Nedeljkovich (En ligne)
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Zrenjanin, Serbia
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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? :)

Cranky. ;)
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