fcoulter wrote:SGP wrote:fcoulter wrote:I just realized that I've been posting to the forums, but haven't introduced myself. So here goes.
I am a sixty year old native American.
There is a number of things I have been expecting to maybe happen on this forum. But this one didn't come to my mind at all. Really surprised .
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By the way, I mean "native American" in that I was born in American, not "Native American" in that my ancestors were here before Columbus (or Erikson).
Well, I for one am not a native of English . Also, if I am not mistaken, even "native" (i.e. without any capitalization) would be used for "pre-Columbus natives" too. What's more, the sole possibility of yourself meaning "native as in: simply grown up there/etc." didn't even come to my mind.
So to me, it seemed as if someone mentioned that while he is a native American (as in "of American pre-Columbus ancestry"), his mother's tongue also is French, i.e. neither English, nor a native American language. So I was kind of double surprised .
Also, I am sorry if I caused any trouble to anyone by what I recently wrote. It's just that I really like meeting people from different cultures, no matter if it is online or offline. And if a native American (in the meaning that has been mentioned above) would post here, this would be something that doesn't happen as much as other natives of English posting here I guess.
Even if there also are definitely native Americans who use the Internet, no doubt about that one, they can be countless even. Also, I already visited at least one of their web sites in the past. What's more, I certainly do know that there is a very large number of them who is entirely fluent in English.
Now what I just explained was the only reason why I mentioned that I really am surprised, then adding a smiley.