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Wulfgar
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Message 25 of 27

06 October 2012 at 7:41am | IP Logged

Cute fraud:
The girl who can speak 20 languages

lingoleng wrote:

Putting Huliganov and our Cesare in the same category "fraud" is either malicious or
incompetent.

fixed

alang wrote:

Wulfgar,

Can you clarify your meaning of fraud and your intentions in this thread?

All have made false claims designed to fool others, and are therefore frauds. For the sake of this thread, and the
dictionary. It doesn't matter if it was intended to be funny, draw attention, improve popularity, etc.

My intention - to entertain myself.

Edited by Wulfgar on 07 October 2012 at 8:42am
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DaraghM
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Message 26 of 27

08 October 2012 at 9:51am | IP Logged

Wulfgar wrote:

My intention - to entertain myself

to the detriment of others ?
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Iversen
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Message 27 of 27

08 October 2012 at 1:16pm | IP Logged

NewLanguageGuy wrote:

If I make an effort to "act" like a native speaker, am I a fraud or simply pronouncing the language as my interlocutors would expect to hear it pronounced?

The implication would be that anyone who speaks well enough to fool a native speaker (or for that matter a good nonnative speaker) is a fraud. Is that how we want to see the best language learners?

Actually the original message in this thread illustrated people who made a point of speaking their own language with a foreign accent - and who by common consent are quite good at it. For me even this is an accomplishment, as long as they leave enough clues to let me discover the real situation.

I reserve the word "fraud" for those who falsely claim to possess a certain skill at a high level ... but in practice we can only use the word about those who are dumb enough to let themselves be tested.

Edited by Iversen on 08 October 2012 at 1:22pm

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