LL-L 'Language proficiency' 2006.07.26 (10) [E]

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L O W L A N D S - L * 26 July 2006 * Volume 10
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From: Sandy Fleming <sandy at scotstext.org>
Subject: LL-L 'Language proficiency' 2006.07.20 (02) [E]

>From: 'Jacqueline Bungenberg de Jong' <Dutchmatters at comcast.net>
>Subject: LL-L 'Genetics' 2006.07.19 (03) [E]
>
>Roger says: I don't know whether it is beginning senility, but I often
>cannot remember in what language a conversation has been held or what the
>original language of a program was.
>Hi Roger,
>I do believe you, but I do not think it has anything to do with senility.
>When you are comfortable with a language it does not demand your attention,
>it does not take any effort to decode it and so it becomes like background
>music. That does not happen with a language that you experience as foreign.
>
For the record, I often can't remember whether a conversation took place
in manual or oral language either. Sometimes the only way I can be sure
the conversation was in BSL is because I know that the person I was
communicating with can't speak, or that it was in English because the
person I was speaking to can't sign.

Of course I often can remember which language it was, since I can
remember the actual words or signs used, at least for parts of the
conversation.

This can get to be an issue when later I find myself in doubt about
whether a person really said what I thought they said. I have to try to
decide which language was being used before I can think about what they
might have said that I could have misunderstood.

Sandy Fleming
http://scotstext.org/

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