Ca ne fait pas aucun differance, si vous ecrivez en Francais, je comprends
:)
WRT to voice timbre and all the extras that go with the words themselves,
they are the very things I have difficulty with, both expressively and in
terms of "reading"
We "aspies" can be very literal it is one of the things that makes life
difficult for us because so few people understand fully that language does
go beyond the mere use of words since this kind of expression is so natural
and intuitive to them that they cannot really comprehend what it is like to
be without it.
There are also occasions when I am under stress, that the effort of
concentrating on language is so frustrating that I begin to lose it
altogether, Anyone who has struggled to listen to a foreign language spoken
quikly and has tried to string together phrases in reply with an imperfect
knowledge will know the feeling.
Written language and spoken language are not altogether the same things at
all, since one can leisurly compose and reconstruct ones written efforts,
with speech it is all or nothing at the time one needs to communicate.
Larry
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> Good evening Tony,
>
> The french expression is phonetically very close to the english,
> which gives us another opportunity to confuse ourselves!
> Literally it means "it is the tone that makes the music". tone
> cna be interpreted in different ways, timbre, intonation, and we
> can add all those features of communication that your egyption
> mate was good at, and all of us use more or less, in every day life.
>
> I think we need to get away from the circular argument academe is
> so fond of, and look at a story wirth a beginning, a middle and
> an end. the function of language, in its broadest interpretation,
> is to communicate what is in our mind, thoughts, fears,
> ambitions, simple directions, ideas and concepts. Without
> language we would stand there like a lot of store dummies.
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