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When You Grow Up In A Family Of Languages, You Develop A Kind Of Casual Fluency, So That Languages, Though Differently Colored, All Seem Transparent To Experience.

-David Antin

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When You Grow Up In A Family

David Antin

When You Grow Up In A Family Of Languages, You Develop A Kind Of Casual Fluency, So That Languages, Though Differently Colored, All Seem Transparent To Experience.

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