Ehm, embarrassing to be answering comments so late! but.
that possibly made no sense whatsoever?
I think it made sense, rather (although Singapore being one of the standard example cases in linguistics textbooks might be helping me along here, hem) - but it was also v. interesting, because, yes - apparently the ways people identify (and don't) in terms of languages really are complicated.
(I tend to think that my considering Finnish "my language" is sort of inextricably linked with the fact that it's the language I was brought up and educated in, and the one I function in every single day, and so the language the bulk of my cultural references live in - but since there is no conflict between that and my background otherwise, I'm obviously not taking the possibility of such a conflict into consideration at all. Even though I probably should. Every day you learn something new. *g*)
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Date: 2006-10-04 08:39 am (UTC)that possibly made no sense whatsoever?
I think it made sense, rather (although Singapore being one of the standard example cases in linguistics textbooks might be helping me along here, hem) - but it was also v. interesting, because, yes - apparently the ways people identify (and don't) in terms of languages really are complicated.
(I tend to think that my considering Finnish "my language" is sort of inextricably linked with the fact that it's the language I was brought up and educated in, and the one I function in every single day, and so the language the bulk of my cultural references live in - but since there is no conflict between that and my background otherwise, I'm obviously not taking the possibility of such a conflict into consideration at all. Even though I probably should. Every day you learn something new. *g*)