Date: Mon, 12 Dec 1994 16:50:50 -0500 (EST)
From: jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU
Subject: Re: reply: (1) veridicality
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To: Veijo Vilva <veion@XIRON.PC.HELSINKI.FI>
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la goran cusku di'e
 
> > > If you and I were both fluent in, say, Croatian, would we have a
> > > tendency to use typical English figures of speech when talking to
> > > each other in Croatian, but maybe avoid them when talking with Goran
> > > (even though he'd probably understand)? Are the range of figures of
> > > speech more tied to the culture or to the language? I'm not fluent
> > > enough in any other language to know.
>
> ???
> I thought you were from Argentine?
> Or did I mix someting up again?
 
I am from Argentina (or from the Argentine, which is a better translation
but not very common these days), but I didn't write the above so you must
have mixed something up again. :)
 
Jorge