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However, this was more than simply language, it was also how context and culture influenced the way language was used.

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whether not just a 'conversation' but also a debate over how to conduct it, even in privacy of one's own mind.Ī Scottish academic colleague with whom I worked over two decades ago was married to a Portuguese academic their children were bi-lingual.

So I've wondered sometimes what the interior monologue of a polyglot is really like, i.e. I always found that contrast in how the kids spoke and their choices of careers just fascinating. If there were ever occupations meant for careful choosers of words, those are two of them. Sometimes then though she'd immediately shift back to the original language - and all this in the presence of her brothers or other bilingual Spanish-English speakers in her hearing. At work or at home, they both always spoke in the language in which they were first being addressed by their particular family member, client or customer.īut their little sister as a child had often paused for just a nano-beat in mid sentence -almost impatiently, the way a kid might when conversing with someone and in the distance suddenly hearing 'Sara, time for dinner!'- and her next word or next phrase might be in the other language. One grew up to become a social worker, the other a small business owner.

It has seemed to me as though their choice of not only words but the timing of shifts in languages may shed a little light on who they are or may become besides just 'multilingual'.Īn example from my own childhood: two boys I knew well then, who were fluent in English and Spanish from birth, tended when speaking to each other to respond in whichever language one or the other had launched the conversation. I'd love to get a bettter understanding of the construction processes behind interior monologues of multilingual people who grow up equally at ease in two or more languages. That's really hard to read, but if you go back and re-edit your internal monologue then you've really got problems. Also, what was this thread actually asking? Oh yes, I think that everybody has an internal monologue but some of them are written in emojis.Įdit: Arrgh. hey, I could just write a rambling monologue which would be really funny and ironic and everybody on MR would like it in some sort of sad substitute for actual human interaction except its not sad when I do it because it's not hypocrisy when you know you're hypocritical and, whoops, I'm supposed to think about sex every five minutes or something so now for a brief word from our gonads *** ******* **** ** ****** ** ***** ***** and that's what they said but then I'm so meta that I think about the factoid that people are supposed to think about sex every five minutes every five minutes - hey, remember that one for when it comes up on some blog or other, so right, yes, let's do that post and maybe I can just cut & paste it into that boring document I'm supposed to write and nobody will notice.

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So, do I reply to this post, even though I've got nothing particularly original to add to it, but then this is the internet so who is going to notice, or do I get on with finishing that really boring document that I promised to write for someone, although its not like they're paying me anything and - hmm, its funny how I can write hundreds of words on the internet for fun, but doing the same for work is like pulling teeth which I should really get checked out because its like a year ago that I went to the dentist and I'm afraid that the crunchy bit in my lasagne the other day might have been a broken filling, which is funny because you can have a mouth full of mercury with no ill effects but I worry when I drop a CFL lightbulb of which I've only got about one that hasn't been replaced with LED yet so, wait, right, boring work or MR post which.

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