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From: Gioiello Tognoni <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] RES: PLOS Genetics: admixture study of European Americans
Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 17:54:09 +0100
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KN wrote:
> I admire that you are fluent in a Romance language. I tried in school, > but it did not work. Soon that will be a necessity or valuable ability in > USA, also. Although I can read a little in Latin, Italian, Spanish, I > certainly can not compose or hear in those languages.> > When some one speaks to me in French, I can ask for "mercy!" When my wife > talks endlessly on the phone to her friends in Russian I am lost although > when I hear "paka" I know the conversation is coming to an end; yesterday > when her German sister-in-law called I could say "wie gehts, schnee heute > hier". When my cousin in Norway sends me a wonderful sweater I can write > "mille gracie"; Oops, I mean "tusen tak". Mathematics fortunately is a > universal language and doing it soon requires learning much of the Greek > alphabet.

I am fluent in "a" Romance language, but I can correct to you not only "mille grazie", but also "mercie" and "wie geht's" ("s" is from "es" and not as English "require+s".

Gioiello
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