It's a day of revelations for my students. First they discovered, just like Moliere's M. Jourdain did, that they speak in prose. Then, I asked them (in Spanish, of course) if they spoke Castilian.
"No!" they answered in unison.
"Yes, you do," I said. "You just answered a question in Castilian."
"Get out of here!" exclaimed one of the students in English.
I'm not sure how I would translate that response into Castilian in a polite manner.
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Off topic, I suppose, but I love Moliere. I have never seen a production of this (his ONLY prose play, as I recall) but I loved reading it in my college French class.
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