[lit-ideas] Geary Has Two Tongues
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:47:26 EDT
In a message dated 6/18/2009 1:09:18 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
karltrogge@xxxxxxxx writes:
At LEAST! My freinds' CHILDREN are fluently trilingual; and their
parents are fluently quadrilingual (as well as having classical Greek
and Latin). I think Mr Speranza is attempting to pull our collective
leg - we must invite him to try the other one (with bells on) ....
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Well, Geary, trying to patronise me, 'spits' 'metonymy', and fails.
For surely metonymy would be:
"Geary _is_ a tongue" rather than "he has a tongue" (never mind two).
Ditto someone may say,
"Speranza _is_ a prick" metonymically.
I cannot see how you KNOW the children of your friends -- give names and
data -- can be tetralingual. It sounds obscene. Latin does not count -- it's
a dead language.
I hope you don't mean plattsdeutsche versus mittelhoghdeutsch.
As Geary said, "We went up the mountains, and we started to speak "High
Dutch"; the feeling was indescribable" (and goes on for 5 pages to describe
it).
Cheers,
JL Speranza
"Where I live, 5 feral girls live"
Bordighera
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