Victor Borge-- a danish man speaking english creating his own version of a language that is not his mother tongue. and the video has dutch subtitles. gotta love it.
i love languages. i don't speak any fluently (english is still a bit of a struggle, i have to admit) though i wish i did, will strive to do so, and admire those who do. my spanish and french suffer at the hands of the other. even when i was in germany for a week and attempted to learn some of the language, i began to lose the little dutch i picked up (not that i picked up a little dutch person but the language). latin and italian are limited to music and opera and a handful of root words. o mio babbino caro anyone?
taking a second language a step further by inventing another language within that second language shows mastery and understanding and ultimately has a "way cool" factor (to use bad english).
i would have included these comments in the last post, but my html is very elementary.
so, here's to you, Victor Borge.
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