Thread by @unlibrarian411

Language and turns of phrase:

My sentences, wording, has been joked by those who don’t understand. I read books to learn spoken language & only heard those around me in my limited capacity. So I speak oddly. I say things like:

How are you fairing?

That makes my heart feel….

The Whidden Hall resident advisor the year I was there was quite amused by my phrasing, assuming it was because I was a “newbie” (from New Brunswick, living in Ontario). But it was more than that and I was happy to watch her amusement in my phrasing.

Wording & social interactions is an interesting level of observation to me. To word properly, to say it at the right sound level, using appropriate tone, just in case. Then reevaluate it all later to learn better for next time. Imagine doing all that in English & French. Haha

I do love my brain & the way it’s come to learn how to discern information then to disseminate it with understanding. So, I look to whom I am speaking for which words to use, esp when I have synonym-door-jam-itis. Pick for the audience. I end up speaking differently contextually.

How I write and how I speak can be different or exactly the same. Personal language versus work language - again, contextual, situational. French is even more drastic - I found I can’t run a caption script in my brain in French like I can in English, expecting to come across.

I long journaled, too. Which amazes a lot of folks. I spoke too low to be understood a lot, and people were busy. So, soon as I learned to write, I was journalling. It’s helped a lot with my memory, information retention & generally sorting out the depths of my thoughts.

I could say that this thread covers #sociolinguistics, #LangaugeforSpecificPurposes, #bilingualism, #autism, #deafness, #deafblindness, #knowledgeTranslation, #adaptations, #informationResilience & more.