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From: erkyrath@netcom.com (Andrew Plotkin)
Subject: Learning English from IF
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Art Gecko (ldaly@cs.bu.edu) wrote:
> Torbj|rn Andersson (d91tan@csd.uu.se) penned:

> > English is easier to learn, of course. I can hardly go anywhere
> > without being exposed to it in some way. Advertising, movies,
> > music, etc. And I-F has given me something concrete to associate
> > words with: "Demijohn", "gnomon", "chigger" and "chirality" are
> > just some of the words I might never have encountered, had it
> > not been for I-F.

> As an American-born, native-English speaker, I can safely say the same
> thing. 

> --Liza, who vividly remembers asking her mother what a chigger was,
> 	at age 12.

Let's not forget "menhir"...

"Oubliette"? (English only in the Borg sense, of course.) I think I'd 
learned that from the movie _Labyrinth_, though.

--Z

-- 

"And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these were the
borogoves..."
