26 January, 2021

The Speaker Intent

The British psyche is one of understated feelings.  There is this pathological need to not offend, or create drama.  This also means non-native speakers of the language miss the idiomatic intent of the conversation, and take it literally.  Language is alive, and speaker intent is more than the apparent meaning of the words. 




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