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Date Posted: Sun March 27, 2005 20:58:56
Author: RamRunner12
Subject: Hi, I am majoring in English: my native language. Care to diminish my choice of majors?
In reply to: FUman'00 's message, "The greatest example of this ever was when announcers would pump up Romain Sato's major in French as a great acheivement. It's his native language." on Sun March 27, 2005 20:16:21

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If the first two or three semesters of your major were spent learning nouns, verbs and pronunciation, then yes. ;-) (NT) -- Pepe le Pew, Sun March 27, 2005 22:17:35
- Pepe, stop being so ignorant. If you are a native speaker then you would never place in a class at such a low level. Besides, low level courses do not qualify towards your major requirements. One of the toughest classes I took at FU was a Spanish Literatur class I took freshman year and Spanish is my first language. (NT) -- J�Dete93, Sun March 27, 2005 23:58:25
  - Likewise, my cousin whose mother was native born Puerto Rican and who had both parents converse in Spanish at home, received her only non A at Barnard in Spanish. She claimed the instructor disdained non Castillian accents. (NT) -- GMeagherFC74, Mon March 28, 2005 12:28:18
    - My high school Spanish teacher was from Spain and felt the same way - utter contempt for any non-Castillian accent. It was a rough class for the gringos withour white-boy accents, but the latino kids of Puerto Rican and Dominican accent caught the worst of her wrath. She was one mean midget and had the sharpest tongue I've ever heard. In fact, she was so old and cranky that she told one guy (not me thankfully) who pissed her off that his father (who was once her student) never amounted to anything and neither will he. Ouch! (NT) -- DamnRam, Mon March 28, 2005 13:07:44

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