Re: Way OT: Phrases you Hate


"Gabby" <Lavolanges@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Dee Randall" <deedovey@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> "Gabby" <Lavolanges@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>> "Denny Wheeler" <dennyw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>>> To Gabby's point: it's my experience that those who acquire English as
>>>> a deliberate--generally adult--learning are much more likely to get
>>>> the rules right than those who learned it as their 'milk language.'
>>>> Contrariwise, the native speakers are much better with idiomatic
>>>> usages than ESL speakers. (again, speaking generally)
>>>
>>> I learned to speak it as a preschooler and was bilingual when I started
>>> school, but I was taught ESL in school, starting in grade 2 or 3. One
>>> difference is that our school & classrooms were bilingual. Teacher
>>> taught the English kids in English and the French kids in French. By
>>> the time we were being taught to read English, we could already speak it
>>> so it was a matter of teaching us phonics in English in the same way
>>> we'd learned them in French. When you learn that way, idiomatic usage
>>> is absorbed along with everything else. At this point, because I don't
>>> get to speak French very often, I have a harder time speaking & writing
>>> it than English.
>>>
>>> Gabby
>> Wasn't Jean Gabin sometimes called "Gabby." I am thinking Gabby is an
>> unusual name, is it French?
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> I've know people named 'Gabie' but my nickname is short for Sr. Gabriel, a
> character in the drama "Sisters" by Wendy Lill. I played her some years
> ago.
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> Gabby
Re the acting I was ever-so "close, but no cigar."
I'm a foreign film buff, and just received two French films in the mail
today. I looked up Sisters, but there are too many of them, and reading
your posting, it no doubt was a play.
Thanks for responding,
Dee Dee


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