LL-L 'Language proficiency' 2006.07.24 (04) [E]

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L O W L A N D S - L * 24 July 2006 * Volume 04
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From: Paul Finlow-Bates <wolf_thunder51 at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: LL-L 'Language proficiency' 2006.07.24 (02) [E]

    From: 'Ria Noome'
    Subject: LL-L 'Language proficiency' 2006.07.21 (01) [E]

    Dear Paul Finlow-Bates
    Can you please specify what South African's cannot remember if a article was in
    English or Afrikaans?
    ria

Hi Ria,
 
It tended to occur mostly when technical issues were discussed (I'm a geologist).
 Obviously most international literature is in English, but quite a lot of South
African papers were in Afrikaans, at least back then in the 70s. Someone might
say "there's an article about Swaziland granites in...." Then they'd pause trying
to narrow it down by remembering which language it was written in.  They often
had to give up, because they could visualise it in either, and it seemed "right".
 
The phenomenon was restricted to the absolutely bilingual, not just fluent in
their second language.  These were the people who, when conversing with someone
of the other language group always used the language of the person they were
speaking to.  If that person was equally bilingual, they always returned the
favour so to speak, so you had "reverse" conversations going on, English-speaker
using Afrikaans, Afrikaner replying in English.
 
Paul

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