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"Actively avoiding you" is bad if true but most of that comment is about totally normal things, like not making accommodations in speech and switching to more e
by throwaway290 3y ago
"Actively avoiding you" is bad if true but most of that comment is about totally normal things, like not making accommodations in speech and switching to more efficient language both people understand. If it was me I would do the same, wouldn't want to dumb down my own language for every immigrant around (what would that language become eventually...) and similarly now I don't expect others should for me. There are teachers and instructors, you can watch local media, read books, lurk on forums, find a local SO/close friend, etc. It's not expected to be a fast and easy process anyway.
- twixfel 3y ago> wouldn't want to dumb down my own language for every immigrant around I think the point is that we have lots of experience doing exactly the thing you say you wouldn't do. And think absolutely nothing of it. It's just what you do, because it's being empathetic and welcoming.
- throwaway290 3y agoWho is "we" though? I met some English people who are great at speaking clearly but it somehow always smells of talking down (the "as a foreigner you can't possibly understand me if I speak normally" vibe) or absence of another linga franca to fall back to for efficiency, or both. I always appreciate people speaking normally, I can always ask if I didn't get something and it keeps me on my toes. Teachers/instructors or news presenters are there for easy to understand language, normal people are for real street speak
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