OT:Favor needed

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

Bill Campbell propounded (on Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 10:51:54AM -0800):
| On Sat, Jan 22, 2005, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
| >On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 02:51:37PM -0800, Bill Campbell wrote:
| >> >Ironically, if you *did* get someone for whom English really was their
| >> >27th language, you likely wouldn't have a problem: anyone with 27
| >> >languages under their belt is likely more literate than you or I.  :-)
| >> 
| >> My sister lived in Tehran for ten years, and her Pharsee is probably better
| >> than most most native speakers.  Sally's motivation to learn Pharsee was
| >> mostly that here children were speaking it and English, and she wanted to
| >> understand what they said.
| >
| >I've never seen that spelled any other way than 'Farsi'; is that the
| >native transliteration?
| 
| No that's my mispelling (I never said that I spoke it :-).  The only
| non-computer languages I've ever studied were Latin and French.  I could
| read/write Latin reasonably well when I graduated from high school, my
| French was marginal at best.

So long as you don't get tagged as a pharisee...

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JP