I speak, understand, read and write a reasonable facsimile of French (written is good enough to understand, but not good enough that I don’t need a francophone to correct it, spoken has a muddled accent and grammar, but people respond properly to what I say and ask with only an occasional excusez-moi?) I feel I can say I am bi-lingual.
Last night my agent asked me for the American copy of my book Triple Deckers to send to an American publisher. She had been getting my English version rejected by English publishers, so I sent out the one with color not colours, cans not tins, trash baskets not bins, and curbs not kerbs, etc.
When I produce my newsletter, I set my spell check to Canadian English and have ABMs as well as ATMs, cheques not checks (which the Swiss have practically banished from usage).
However, in writing an article today for the newsletter, I need to say two people were fired, but I am not sure if it is fired, sacked or even made redundant in Canada. I have an emergency email out to Mighty Mom, a Canadian writer to set me on the correct path.
So the question is if I speak/read/write American-English-Canadian English and French am I quarto-lingual?
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Fantastic, and I say yes! Crazy, isn't it?
Unfortunately spell check does not yet correct errors such as "reasonable facsimile". A facsimile is an "exact" copy and "reasonable" is just not good enough. Anyway, why try to write perfect French? They can't.
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