Klarinet Archive - Posting 000185.txt from 2000/10

From: Bilwright@-----.net (William Wright)
Subj: Re: [kl] Language - A Viewpoint
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 22:37:04 -0400

<><> Dee wrote:
By contrast, look at our world today. Here we are exchanging casual
notes with people we've never met. We may have no idea where they come
from or what casual day to day English is like in their area. This
creates numerous chances to be misunderstood.

When one of my daughters was fortunate enough to be an exchange
student in England, she was not prepared for the amount of potato
normally served at a family meal. So on her first night in her 'new
home', she ate as much potato as she could and then pushed her chair
back from the table and announced, much to the horror of her hosts: "I
am stuffed!"
That was her first lesson in cultural awareness.

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