On 3/7/06, FIDELHOLTZ_DOOCHIN_JAMES_LAWRENCE <jfidel@siu.buap.mx> wrote:
> I *am* a native speaker (or at least I used to be), and I don't have any
> qualms about 'concertation'. Maybe I should?
I am also a native speaker of (American) English, and I still have not
been able to figure out from the context of this discussion what
'concertation' is supposed to mean.
> ... and aside from us monolingual Americans, most English
> speakers with any academic pretensions at all ...
> can at least read in a couple of non-English languages.
Alas, I am an American with academic, even linguistic, pretensions,
who is totally incapable of reading above the first-grade level in any
other language. :(
That's not to say I would object to anyone writing in another
language. Just don't expect us provincial Yanks to follow along.
-- Ed Kenschaft ekenschaft@gmail.com www.umiacs.umd.edu/users/kensch/
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