[lit-ideas] Re: "The African Language" (Was: Julie's Query)

  • From: Judy Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 19:03:06 +0100

Friday, July 30, 2004, 6:02:33 AM, Robert Paul wrote:


RP> If there is a corresponding 'European Language Teachers Association.' I'm 
pretty
RP> sure that its members neither study nor speak a language called 'European.'

Right -- there isn't, I think -- it would mean they teach a European
Language. There is a Romance Language Association (in the US,
forsooth), but not (even in the US) a language called Romance.

(Alas...)




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 Judy Evans, Cardiff, UK   
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