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===========================================<br></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Roger Thijs, Euro-Support, Inc.</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:roger.thijs@euro-support.be">roger.thijs@euro-support.be</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI">LL-L "Idiomatica" 2009.07.20 (02) [EN]<br><br></span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<div class="im"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="NL">> From: R.
F. Hahn <<a href="http://uk.mc264.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=sassisch@yahoo.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>> Subject:
Idiomatica<br></span></font></div><div class="im"><font size="3">> It would be interesting to
figure out if this register switching is a family tradition or if it's more
widespread. It sounds to me like a cultural phenomenon. When people identify
themselves as seniors they change their lifestyles,</font></div></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">My
parents came from small larg-family farms in the South of Belgian Limburg and it
was a practice that the girls of the family were sent to Liège in their teen
years  for learning some French while "serving" and getting a little bit of
money.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">So my
mother, in her young years, has been serving for serveral years in the kitchens
of the hospital Saint-Joseph and of the technical school Saint-Roland both
downtown Liège.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">At the
time Liège was about 60 minutes away from where we lived: 30 minutes with
the old tram to Tongeren, and a further 30 minutes with the multi-stop
train to the Gare du Palais. Liège was still the capital of our bishopric
as well as of our legal district at the time.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">At the
age of 70 my mother got a serious stroke and was taken into to the
Antwerp Middelheim hospital. To my big surprise, when she restarted talking, she
did it in French with the Antwerp hospital staff.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">So I
guess it has to do with release of things related to memory and practice hidden
in lower parts of the brain.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Regards,</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Roger<br><br>----------<br><br></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="NL">From: R.
F. Hahn <<a href="http://uk.mc264.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=sassisch@yahoo.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>Subject:
Idiomatica</span></font><br><br>Thanks, Roger.<br><br>Your story is not unlike the two I've shared here before.<br><br>An old German-Finnish-Russian professor of mine started speaking Mandarin when he was delirious close to his death. He did not know Chinese as an adult (which was seen as a professional detriment in his case), but he had been taken care by a Chinese nanny as a young child in Manchuria.<br>
<br>The grandmother of a friend of mine suffered a stroke and thereafter completely reverted to her native Yiddish, having lost all of her English that she had used since arriving in the US as a very young person.<br><br>
Regards,<br>Reinhard/Ron<br>Seattle, USA<br></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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