Are CM artists multilinguals?

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VK RAMAN
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Are CM artists multilinguals?

Post by VK RAMAN »

Some years back, I had a German Boss who made a joke and wanted us all in the conference room to solve the riddle.

Define:

Multilingual
Bilingual
Monolingual

Everyone was able to define first two and when it came to the Monolingual, he did not agree to the dictionary definition. He laughingly said "American" (monolingual). Do we have any American in our CM artists?

sridhar_ranga
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Re: Are CM artists multilinguals?

Post by sridhar_ranga »

I know Peter is not German but he told me the same thing!

http://rasikas.org/forums/viewtopic.php? ... db#p131975

cmlover
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Re: Are CM artists multilinguals?

Post by cmlover »

I thought 'american' was one who spoke no languages :D
CM artistes will qualify for one who murders languages :D

arasi
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Re: Are CM artists multilinguals?

Post by arasi »

Mon ami,
Do you mean, americans don't speak it as they do across the pond? You canadians can take pride because you still are part of the commonwealth ;)
Still, american slang is rich and is very expressive and I am sure you would agree with me!

cmlover
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Re: Are CM artists multilinguals?

Post by cmlover »

Of course Americans speak the language called 'americain' (not english) :)
It is full of slings and hence is slangish.
Call them 'alingual' if you like though their drawl is musical like cockney :D

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