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Posted by PierreAbbat on Mon 16 of Jun, 2008 06:01 GMT posts: 324

If lo rusko cu fangybau mi, is it foreign to me, or do I speak it?

Pierre

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Posted by arj on Mon 16 of Jun, 2008 06:01 GMT posts: 953

On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 10:33:30AM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> If lo rusko cu fangybau mi, is it foreign to me, or do I speak it?

My guess is that you speak it, but it is not your native language, cf. German "Fremdsprache".

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On 4/4/08, Arnt Richard Johansen <arj@nvg.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 10:33:30AM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> > If lo rusko cu fangybau mi, is it foreign to me, or do I speak it?
>
> My guess is that you speak it, but it is not your native language, cf. German "Fremdsprache".

That's how I would understand it too. If you want to say that
you don't speak it, you don't need to go all roundabout with {fange}.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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