My English (Personal Information You Don't Need to Know)

chiwawa

13 years ago

this is so funny but not that weird.. and you dont have to feel that way, its not your fault

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HeySal

13 years ago

Perhaps you just didn't have anything to say?
Einstein did the same thing, but he didn't say anything til he was 7. He knew how and when the time came he just started talking.

You probably just have a severely mathematical brain -- mathematicians break a lot of language rules that are usually innate characteristics of human communications.

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thunderbird

13 years ago

Originally Posted by HeySal

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You probably just have a severely mathematical brain -- mathematicians break a lot of language rules that are usually innate characteristics of human communications.

Not I. Not even moderately. I'm no Albert Einstein.

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ramonacole

13 years ago

Yeah, interesting what you're doing for living!

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seasoned

13 years ago

Well, my mother SWEARS I started speaking in sentences, and didn't babble. I started talking a lot earlier than 4 though.

As for Einstein, I can't say anything about the rumors. MANY, for example, say he failed french. Apparently Einstein said that he had no need to learn it, and he later learned it when he had to.

And I don't know why you said this here, but talking isn't everything and if you do okay now, most wouldn't care if you started so late. MANY have accents and some are quite odd. Heck, some people get hired only because they have a distinctive voice.

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Alexa Smith

Banned 13 years ago

Jacob Bronowski ("The Ascent Of Man") spoke English with a really strong foreign accent. He was born in Poland, came to live in England at the age of 12 and learned English as a second language. Later in his life he couldn't remember a word of Polish (this surprised me a lot!) but still spoke English "like a foreigner". And yet he was still one of the world's most gifted communicators ever. Go figure.

A colleague of my mother's had a patient who had been born in Hong Kong (to English parents and in an English "community" there) and lived there until he was 1 year old, when he went back to England for the rest of his life. In his 30's he developed paranoid schizophrenia and the form of auditory hallucinations he had were voices talking in Chinese and he couldn't understand a single word they said. Comme c'est bizarre.

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thunderbird

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

Jacob Bronowski ("The Ascent Of Man") spoke English with a really strong foreign accent. He was born in Poland, came to live in England at the age of 12 and learned English as a second language. Later in his life he couldn't remember a word of Polish (this surprised me a lot!) but still spoke English "like a foreigner". And yet he was still one of the world's most gifted communicators ever. Go figure.

That is interesting. I've watched a number of his documentaries.

A colleague of my mother's had a patient who had been born in Hong Kong (to English parents and in an English "community" there) and lived there until he was 1 year old, when he went back to England for the rest of his life. In his 30's he developed paranoid schizophrenia and the form of auditory hallucinations he had were voices talking in Chinese and he couldn't understand a single word they said. Comme c'est bizarre.

I sometimes swear in Chinese in my sleep, I've been told.

From what I've seen, paranoid schizophrenia can be very bizarre and frightening. I gather writer Joseph Conrad suffered mental illness and heard the voices of characters from his novels. I had a friend who had very elaborate paranoid delusions, and it even started to seem a little dangerous for me. In his paranoid constructs, I was part of a spy ring that existed to persecute him. He thought trips I took abroad were for the purposes of training on how to spy on him. It was so detailed, he almost had me believing it. I disassociated with him after he talked about knifing me in the back.

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thunderbird 13 years ago

Originally Posted by seasoned

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And I don't know why you said this here, but talking isn't everything and if you do okay now, most wouldn't care if you started so late.

I don't know what motivated me to talk about it either. I guess needing to hire voice over people had something to do with it.

MANY have accents and some are quite odd. Heck, some people get hired only because they have a distinctive voice.

Steve

That might be true for actors in character roles. But, who else?
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- seasoned 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by thunderbird
  
  I don't know what motivated me to talk about it either. I guess needing to hire voice over people had something to do with it.
  
  OH, OK, I guess I missed that. 8-(
  
  That might be true for actors in character roles. But, who else?
  
  ACTORS
  VOICE OVER ARTISTS
  PITCHMEN
  READERS for the blind and audio books
  SPEAKERS of various sorts
  SOME ENTERTAINERS
  
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Don Schenk

13 years ago

Originally Posted by thunderbird

Sometimes I feel like I'm from another planet.

When the saucer lands, and three fellows who look exactly like you jump out, and they say, "Thunderbird. It's time to go home now." You will discover the truth.

I ran away when they came to get me, so now I have no idea where is my home planet.

:-Don