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Anything you say may be used against you
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Anything you say may be used against you You talk seriously, they laugh. You crack a joke, and they look at you with a straight face. In the first case, you wonder if they misunderstood you or if they're just making fun of you. In the second, you're still wondering if they understood you or not, and worse, if you're just plain not funny. Whether you're speaking French, English, Spanish, Chinese, German, or Hebrew (like I do), or baby talk, the communications pipes between you and you interlocutor are not always clean. Language is an important tool. If you've got something to say, you need to know how to say it. If you don't know how to say it, then either you don't say it, and that's not very useful, or you say it and it doesn't quite come out as planned. In both cases, you're pretty much screwed. Whether...
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