General TP Reading Question (extremely silly)

[kelber at mindspring.com]

By all means, brag about your accomplishments.  I'm incredibly impressed and jealous.  Like most native-born Americans, I'm essentially monolingual, even after 4 years of high school Spanish and 2 years of college Russian.  American bigotry assumes that everyone who's anyone will know English.  As we enter the 21st century, it's probably a poor assumption to make.  Mandarin, anyone?

Laura

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>From: Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com>

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>(extremely snobbish (and maybe silly as well))
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>Actually yeah, I am reading Borges in Spanish at the moment. This is 
>shameless showing off (sometimes I indulge in this), but  at the moment I'm 
>reading seven books in seven different languages. However there is one 
>factor which keeps my ego in check and prevents it from blowing up like 
>'Inconvenience', there is a person I know who not only reads in but also 
>translates from about  thirty languages, so there is always room for 
>improvement. And I will never read Pynchon the way you Americans do, so it 
>cuts both ways.
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