Is Lin Yutang's English native？ Lin Yutang was a Chinese author who moved to America in his forties and wrote most of his books in English. I am reading one of his novels called A Leaf in the Storm fo

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Is Lin Yutang's English native？ Lin Yutang was a Chinese author who moved to America in his forties and wrote most of his books in English. I am reading one of his novels called A Leaf in the Storm for the second time. I have read it once in Chinese version. Some parts of it were really mind-blowing. But I don't feel the same way this time. I am not sure if it is because of me or the lauguage. And I am wondering is Lin Yutang's English native to those whose mother tongue is English?

Nov 13, 2011 10:54 AM

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According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lin_Yutang), he was a very distinguished scholar. A google search also returns http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/l/lin_yutang.html, which shows quotes of his that - to my native English - demonstrate his command of English to be advanced enough to qualify as "native," despite the term being reserved for use toward people who speak the language from birth.

December 10, 2011

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