Non-native speakers don’t get tonal subtleties…
Posted in babies, work, tagged frustration, miscarriage on November 16, 2007 | 2 Comments »
…including “I’m not going to discuss this.”
A full half of my lab grew up speaking some language other than English, and none of them (well, of those who are fluent) have trouble with this. Frenchie or Noodles will occassionally ask me to explain some idiom or piece of slang, but they are perfectly polite and [...]
