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Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :

Check this out. It's a project that is collecting love letters between people who have different native languages. E-mail included. Anyway, quids, I immediately thought of you. [Smile]

Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :

I'm reminded of Pepe LePeu.

quote:
Ah bebe. I luff you...."

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

Huh. I thought that the writer of a letter holds copyright -- so how can they be asking for both sides of a correspondence without making that caveat clear?

Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :

Hehe, I'm not dating someone who speaks a different language, but Alcon is! [Wink]

Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :

but raia, I think alcon's girlfreind speaks english pretty well, hmm she might have even passed AP lit and comp

Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :

True... but she still has a native foreign language under her belt!

Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :

I heard she's really pretty and has bright red hair. I wonder if she can sing?

Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :

Who told you that? She's totally not pretty at all! No offense, Alcon... [Wink]

Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :

Eljay, you're cute!

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the letter may be written in your native tongue and sent to someone with a different one, or written in the native tongue of the intended recipient by a sender writing in an unfamiliar tongue.

Anyway, it looks like they're looking for love letters where the communication is not the greatest, and yeah, that definitely lets us out. He's so fluent in English that it's the language he thinks in.

Dreams in, no. [Big Grin]

I haven't yet figured out what language it is, and it may depend on the dream. (He's fluent in 4 1/2 languages.) He talks in his sleep, you see. [Smile]

And has entire conversations at times. In some language I don't understand. [Grumble]

Posted by Corwin (Member # 5705) on :

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He talks in his sleep, you see. And has entire conversations at times. In some language I don't understand.

Record them. Then ask him. Or play detective! [Smile]

Posted by Alcon (Member # 6645) on :

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Hehe, I'm not dating someone who speaks a different language, but Alcon is! [Wink]

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True... but she still has a native foreign language under her belt!

Raia dear, it logically follows that if I am dating someone who speaks a different native language from me, then I, in turn, have a different native language from that person. Since that person happens to be you, then we both count [Wink]

Though personally, becuase your grasp of english is as good as any native speaker, I feel the point is rather moot [Wink]

I think it is posible to have more than one 'native' language, in which case I believe you would count as a native english speaker. A bilingual native english speaker at that [Smile]

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Who told you that? She's totally not pretty at all! No offense, Alcon... [Wink]

None, taken. Though I will have to disagree with you, as she is most decidedly gorgeous [Big Grin]

Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :

Ah, but Alcon, pretty and decidedly gorgeous are two comletely different things.

Cor, I've thought about it, believe me. But since it's in the middle of the night, I'm usually too tired to care. [Sleep]

Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :

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He talks in his sleep, you see. And has entire conversations at times. In some language I don't understand.

Maybe it's not real language. My husband talks in his sleep a lot-- in disconnected, non-sensical, or incoherent words. I did record him once. He almost wet his pants laughing when he heard himself.

Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :

Like I said, Alcon, I count and you don't. [Razz]

I have two native languages, and you don't speak my other one! [Wink]

And I am not gorgeous! [Big Grin]

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

It says who "do not share the same native tongue." You two share the native tongue of English, so you're both out.

And Raia, you are gorgeous. Deal.