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Message ID: 5466
Date: Tue Aug 24 13:54:48 BST 1999
Author: Janko Slaten'sek
Subject: Re: IRL - Languages
On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Jamie wrote:
> From: "Jamie" <bribed@...>
>
> Does it ever bother anyone else that people who say, "Sorry if you couldn't
> understand, English isn't my first language," often speak more coherently
> than about 70 -80% of the people whose first language it is? I mean, I meet
> people who have been speaking English their entire lives, and I guess its
> just degraded from over use. For all of those people out there who think
> they aren't being understood, don't worry about it, chances are you get your
> points across more clearly than we naturals do :)
>
>
> Taluvil
>
>
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