Ask A Linguist For October 1997 - December 1997
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Thank you for explaining me about monolingualism.You are so helpful. I hope
we have a good relation. If you have spare time, you can e-mail me about
anything. I would like to get the knowledge from you.
Happy New Year
Sureerut Wongsaming (sureerut@bkk.a-net.net.th)
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> From: Karen S. Chung <karchung@ccms.ntu.edu.tw>
> To: Ask A Linguist <ask-ling@LINGUISTLIST.ORG>
> Cc: sureerut wongsaming <sureerut@box1.a-net.net.th>
> Subject: Re: monolingualism
> Date: 27 >DH(T!RB9 2540 12:29
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> > From: sureerut wongsaming <sureerut@bkk.a-net.net.th>
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> > What is the monolingualism? Please explain in detail.
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> 'Monolingualism' is having the ability to speak only one language,
> normally one's native language.
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> A related joke:
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> 'What do you call someone who speaks two languages?'
> 'Bilingual.'
> 'What do you call someone who speaks more than two languages?'
> 'Mulitlingual.'
> 'And what do you call someone who speaks only one language?'
> 'American.'
>
> Karen Steffen Chung
> National Taiwan University
> karchung@ccms.ntu.edu.tw
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