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By Ian Nance - posted Tuesday, 19 August 2014


What is wrong with the capacity for nuance, or the opportunity to express something in a better way than by using verbal shortcuts?

In one sense, it is not unlike playing football where you could both develop and train to run very fast with the ball straight down to the line, or else use tricky, but skilled, passing to others to achieve the resulting try. The outcome could be the same, but one method can be more satisfying personally than another.

I admire those, including my partner, with whom I speak (hesitantly and poorly) in Chinese, as I listen to them use English as their second language. Many can do so flawlessly.

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There is great respect I have one friend who came from Vietnam knowing no English, studied hard on her arrival, then completed a degree course, successfully, using English only. What a challenging, yet happy outcome!

So if people, like, from other nations, can, like, use English correctly as a second language, or others in our society can, like, speak clearly and coherently, like, what's wrong with trying to say it gooder?

Like …um …yeah!

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Ian Nance's media career began in radio drama production and news. He took up TV direction of news/current affairs, thence freelance television and film producing, directing and writing. He operated a program and commercial production company, later moving into advertising and marketing.

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