Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> Sent by: dragaera-bounces at dragaera.info 01/05/06 09:50 PM To SKZB List <dragaera at dragaera.info> cc Subject Re: (Orca spoiler) >On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, rone wrote: > >> Philip Hart writes: >> There's a bit in _Issola_ where V mutters to himself in F, so perhaps >> he's fully bilingual or that's his milk tongue. >> >> I think he admits to not being fluent in it. > >He might have stopped speaking/hearing F regularly at a young age >and lack a fully native grammar/vocab but still have it in his >deep language center. But if he's not fluent then the Vladiad's >in Dragaeran. [cite] V: "How many languages do you speak, Teldra?" T: "Several," she said, "And you?" V: "None well. A bit of Fenarian. A smattering of a few other Eastern Languages." [/cite] I like the fact that he doesn't even claim to speak Dragaeran 'well'. But Vlad's assessment of his own abilities would be consistent with the above theory. Majikjon