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   Message 740 of 1,840   
   August Abolins to Wilfred van Velzen   
   Measuring Stuff in Canada   
   14 Sep 21 09:05:00   
   
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   Hello Wilfred!   
      
   ** On Tuesday 14.09.21 - 15:21, you wrote to Jay:   
      
    JH>> Oh, that's a whole conversation unto itself.  It depends   
    JH>> on what you're measuring. [...]   
      
    WvV> You must be confused all the time... Can you teach that   
    WvV> to your children?   
      
   We seem to just "know" what to use depending on what we are     
   measuring.  It's like English, we know when to pronounce the     
   hard C vs the soft C, etc.   
      
   My first language was not English, but in the house I grew up     
   with both.  To me, it was like one language anyway. I would     
   flip to one language or the other depending on who I was     
   talking to, and I didn't notice any difficulty in doing that.   
      
   I remember my 1st day in kindergarten at some of the confused     
   looks of the other kids (and the teacher) when I talked to     
   them. Apparently I was using a bit of both languages at the     
   same time!  I caught on fast though.   
      
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