It's awful, it's terrible. I am suffering from a disease as the leading experts Austro-Korean named "syndrome JCVD."
What are the symptoms?
Slurred speech, inability to find words, but above all, above ... having to replace words with the equivalent English.
It has been several months since I try to ignore the evil that eats away at me little fires.
It also comes in finding the most subtle subterfuges to hide this disability: a few pauses in the speech, the time to reflect on his word, using convoluted sentences that allow the French word from reaching your brain, a hesitation or two in order to force your partner to pronounce the word for you ...
But I can not hide the terrible truth any longer.
Last week while traveling in the French office of my company, turning a casual conversation with a longtime colleague, the inevitable happened . I give you the transcript of this exchange in which unexpected guests have interfered ...
My colleague: "So how are your children?to become schizophrenic ...
Me: - A wonder they grow up too fast.
My colleague - I doubt it.
Me: - So fast that we do not realize it. But overnight, when we realized that my daughter could climb stairs with his back soon, we immediately bought a ...
My brain, unexpected guest: gate gate gate ... ... ... ... gate
Me: ... uh ... no door, a portal ...
My brain ... gate gate gate gate ... ... ... ... You Bought A gate
Me: gate ... arf ...
My brain gate ... that's a gate !!!... The Word you're looking for is "gate", say it! Say it!
My other brain, the one who speaks French, another unexpected guest: No but it will not? I'll look ridiculous casant an English word in a French conversation! My brain
English: Gate say ... it, you're Being Ridiculous! Say it! Gate, gate, gate, gate!
Me: damn good night of ...
My colleague ? My brain
Francophone Damn, I'll look for me to tell, like "I am an English word box" My brain
English: gate gate gate ... ... ... My brain
Francophone This is not a portal or a door is ...
Me, as delivered from great pain: a barrier !! That is a barrier!
My colleague ?
Do not be surprised if one day I will never speak of our world consisting of arrows and molecules, and electricity, as the Big Bang, you see, and everything together, it forms the Universe .
Nevertheless, the linguist that I am in pain at the root ...
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