Re: Culture clash

It seems to me I heard somewhere that Cindy wrote in article
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In addition to your comments, if a person who speakers same phrases of
a certain foreign language daily, he will sound totally fluent at it.
For instance, if he is a flight attendant and delivers public
announcement in Japanese every time, he will memorize the lines and
makes himself sound like a bilingual. However, if his flight got
hijacked or was to go through a crash landing or a pregnant passenger
started a labor or something (panic time), I doubt that he would
maintain his Japanese fluency. You can say the same to Japanese
English speakers (just like me). When you want to brag and show off
your foreign language skill, you got to choose the topic that you are
familiar with.

Does memorization and constant use do away with accented pronunciation
from the mother language?

By the way, I am so ________ about American geriatric people. Most
people are all right. They treat me normal. Some are so observant
and so sweet. Just listening to their story and acknowledging it and
validating the person, and she feels so taken-cared or something. She
calls my supervisor and tells her how good my care was and so on.
That is nice. However, once in a blue moon, some patient is so sick
that she has to make everything difficult. She has to put everybody
in misery -- the registration staff, the receptionist, her daughter
and me. She murmurs to me when I am busy working on her. When I
cannot hear clearly, I say "Excuse me" or "Pardon me", then she gets
wild -- "Get someone else! Get someone else!" Yeah, this geriatric
female treats me like ***. So, I get Jeanie for her; then, she says
"Ohhhh, thank you, Jeanieeee" The exam I am doing is called gastro
enema. After the injection of gastro(graphin), she could not make it
to the restroom, so she defecated on the exam table. Who do you think
stayed with her and cleaned up her ass? Me, myself and I. She was
so prejudice and racial that she could not stand me not understanding
her unclear English at first hearing and had to have a native English
speaker, but the Jeanie left and I stayed. Hospital is a strange
place, you may be taken care by the ethic group people that you hate.

So by your own words most geriatrics are good people but once in a blue
moon you get one who's a pain in the ***, so you hate the entire ethnic
(?) group and are "so ________ about American geriatric people)?
--
Don Kirkman
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