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Bilingual betrayal
Skip to: comments (1); categories; related posts; previous/next postRodrigo Fernández de Santaella, Vocabulario eclesiástico (1499) says that a bilingual person is one who sings a different song depending on his location or conversational partner, a two-tongued [serpent]:
Whispering is also a bilingual activity, sowing discord among brothers:
I don’t know if this reflects a fear or distrust of people who spoke two languages fluently along the lines of the Italian traduttore, traditore, translator, traitor.
Trevor @ 26 April 2005 12:01 PM
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