# Borges' Language Use

*The Urth list — 3 messages, 2 voices, 17 Apr 1998*

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### C R Culver
*17 Apr 1998, 03:26*

<Borges was fluent in English, at least
conversationally, if I remember correctly?>

Yes, but in a biography about him, written by a close friend of his, whose
name I don't recall, said that although he was very fluent in English, it was
Spanish writing that he labored to perfect.

Christopher R. Culver <crculver at aol.com>
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"Ignorance, that light of fools steers a wayward path"
-Brendan Perry

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### Pedro Jorge Romero
*17 Apr 1998, 06:25 · follows C R Culver*

> <Borges was fluent in English, at least
> conversationally, if I remember correctly?>
> 
> Yes, but in a biography about him, written by a close friend of his, whose
> name I don't recall, said that although he was very fluent in English, it was
> Spanish writing that he labored to perfect.

Emir Rodriguez Monegal? Borges a Literary Biography?

Best

Pedro Jorge

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### C R Culver
*17 Apr 1998, 18:58 · follows Pedro Jorge Romero*

Pedro Jorge said:

> Emir Rodriguez Monegal? Borges a Literary Biography?<

That's the one.

Christopher R. Culver <crculver at aol.com>
http://members.aol.com/crculver/index.html

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