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L O W L A N D S - L - 05 April 2011 - Volume 02<br>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">From: <span class="gd"><span style="color:#790619">Mike Morgan</span></span><span class="gi"> </span><span class="go"><<a href="mailto:mwmbombay@gmail.com">mwmbombay@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="gi">LL-L "Language use" 2011.04.04 (03) [EN]</span><br>
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Yes, Ron, I think the distinction between individual bi/multilingualism and
collective (?) bi/multiculturalism is an important one... and many collectively
bi/multulingual communities are unbalancedly bi/multilingual in two important
ways:<br>
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1) native speakers of the dominant language have less reason to be
multilingual. Thus, for instance the percentage of bi/multilingual individuals
is much lower among English native speakers in the US than among probably any other
group. (IF I had to guess -- and it WOULD be a GUESS -- I would guess that 90%
of US English native speakers are functionally monolingual...2 years of high
school Spanish probably doesn't count!) <br>
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Likewise here in central north India, native Hindi speakers are much more
likely to be monolingual -- though percentages of monolinguals is much lower
than in the US -- than native speakers of any other language.<br>
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2) Among the other non-dominant groups, there are a multiple of reasons for
lower than average levels of bi/multilingualism: size of the community,
self-containedness of the community, cultural distinctness from other
communities, education levels, etc... Thus I would guess that they percentage
of E/SE Asians in San Jose who are functionally monolingual in their E/SE Asian
language is higher than the percent of Latinos who are functionally monolingual
-- though again that is a guess (my wife is "from" Sunnyvale, next
door to San Jose)<br>
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Reinhard/Ron wrote:<br>
> Anyway, I didn’t understand this thread to deal with individuals’ language
<br>
> proficiencies. I understood it as dealing with more than one language
being<br>
> used within communities. <br style="mso-special-character:line-break">
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">mwm || U C > || mike ||
мика || माईक || マイク || மாய்க் (aka Dr Michael W
Morgan)<br>
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Senior Consultant<br>
BA in Applied Sign Language Studies (BAASLS)<br>
Indira Gandhi National Open Univeristy<br>
New Delhi, India<br>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">"The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never
make up their minds to be good or evil." (Hannah Arendt)</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">"When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle,
then evil men prevail." (Pearl S. Buck)</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">From: Hannelore Hinz <a href="mailto:hannehinz@t-online.de" target="_blank"><hannehinz@t-online.de></a><br>
Subject: LL-L "Language use" 2011.04.04 (04) [EN]<br>
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Nu bün ick bannig niegelich, wat Ron schreew:</p>
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Herbert Hoover even spoke Mandarin! How about that, huh?</span></p>
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Säukwuurt bi Google: Mandarin-Sprache.<br>
<br>
Funn'n: <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hochchinesisch" target="_blank">http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hochchinesisch</a><br>
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Dat heff ick nich dacht.<br>
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Gräutens.<br>
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Hanne</p>
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