[Wikipedia-l] Edits by project and country of origin
Delirium
delirium at hackish.org
Wed Sep 6 17:15:07 UTC 2006
Andy Rabagliati wrote:
>But you can brutalise English and still be understood, which I gather is
>not the case for Chinese.
>
>
I think this is partly a self-fulfilling prophecy: semi-fluent or even
broken English can be understood because people are used to reading or
hearing it, since it's a common second or third or fourth language.
Compare to, say, modern Greek, where people are astounded to even hear
it language spoken with a foreign accent---generally you either speak it
natively or not at all, so people aren't used to making sense of
semi-fluent speech/writing.
-Mark
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