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to: Adam Flinton
from: Antti Kurenniemi
date: 2004-04-26 11:35:24
subject: Re: On Eloquence in Speaking

From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Adam Flinton"  wrote in
message news:408c3c2e{at}w3.nls.net...
> > Most of the research indicates that today's immigrants are
> > learning English as fast as or faster than previous generations.
>
>
> Most have a vastly larger exposure to english long before they arrive. I
> am amazed with the speed at which english is becoming the european
> lingua franca (or should that be lingua anglia?).

When I speak about computer stuff, I sometimes have to go "what's that
in Finnish", because I'm so used to using English in computer and
programming related discussions. It's kinda funny, but also pretty weird



Antti Kurenniemi

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