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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