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How do people lose their native language? (Sgt Bowe Bergdahl spoke English for 23 years...)
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Posted on 06/04/2014 11:44:25 AM PDT by a fool in paradise
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To: a fool in paradise
Baloney. I have lived in this country for well over 30 years and am still fluent in my native language. Total hogwash.
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posted on
06/04/2014 4:59:57 PM PDT
by
bergmeid
To: Huntress
English is my third language, and has been my primary language for the last 50 years, but I can still understand and speak Portuguese and Ukrainian.
When I am speaking those other two languages, I compose my thoughts in English.
It is just a convenient excuse.
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posted on
06/04/2014 5:08:57 PM PDT
by
ustheliving
(Who is John Gault?)
To: colorado tanker
So the “signal” was being sent to those whose primary language IS Arabic.
Unless its standard practice to recite the “bismillah” in Arabic.
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posted on
06/04/2014 6:09:50 PM PDT
by
WildHighlander57
((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
To: ustheliving
Do many Ukrainians speak Portuguese? Are there Portuguese rebels in the Ukraine who are demanding territory?
Just what is going on in your family that the Obama authorities should know about?
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posted on
06/04/2014 8:14:25 PM PDT
by
Kenny Bunk
( A disbarred gay lawyer from Kenya as POTUS? Sure! What could go wrong?)
To: Bogey78O
That was my thought too. I guess that is why Perot didn’t win the presidency - Stockdale did all of his debates in Vietnamese. (Hmm - maybe he would have done better if he had!)
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posted on
06/04/2014 8:19:00 PM PDT
by
21twelve
(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts 2013 is 1933 REBORN)
To: WildHighlander57
Bergdahl is damn lucky to have forgotten English. While he was gallivanting about Afghanistan with his goat-and-boy-buggering buddies on his bomb-making lecture tour, our nation's language became Spanish. Now he won't have any English to un-learn.
Allah Bismallah alraham alraheem works in mysterious ways, O infidel dog.
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posted on
06/04/2014 8:20:39 PM PDT
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Kenny Bunk
( A disbarred gay Muslim lawyer from Kenya as POTUS? Sure! What could go wrong?)
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