Accomodating ESL speakers

todd glassey todd.glassey at worldnet.att.net
Tue Jul 8 19:48:58 CEST 2003


The issue then is how to apply Note Well to that since it is all about how
the vocal incantations or declarations are snapped up.

Todd

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso at mit.edu>
To: "Jari Arkko" <jari.arkko at piuha.net>
Cc: "todd glassey" <todd.glassey at worldnet.att.net>;
<problem-statement at alvestrand.no>; "avri" <avri at apocalypse.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 12:06 PM
Subject: Re: Accomodating ESL speakers


> On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 05:46:25PM +0300, Jari Arkko wrote:
> >
> > And of course, the worst case scenario is an ESL speaker
> > (original language X) speaks incomprehensible English
> > and another ESL person (original language Y) tries to
> > understand ;-)
> >
>
> It's a problem when some really smart people try to talk as fast as
> possible to keep up with their thoughts.  The problem isn't
> necessarily limited to native english speakers, too.  I've sometimes
> really had problems trying to follow an ESL speaker who spoke English
> with a very heavy accent, but who was also speaking very quickly, and
> on a technically deep enough topic that trying to decipher his accent
> as well as keep up with his train of thought was a very large challenge.
>
> - Ted



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