Posted by Racer on July 7, 2004, at 16:19:55
In reply to Re: What's going on with me???? PLEASE RESPOND » Harlock, posted by notaliseliz on July 7, 2004, at 15:55:42
Just a quick note for communicating this to your pdoc:
I'm in California, where a huge percentage of the kids in public schools are not native speakers of English. When the standardized tests are given, the scores are skewed badly unless those kids are disaggragated from the results -- which doesn't always happen -- because you can't really tell if the kids couldn't answer the questions or JUST COULDN'T UNDERSTAND THEM IN THE FIRST PLACE! (That's the illustration for you.)
Remind your doctor that there's a difference between being able to SEE the world in shades of grey and being able to EXPRESS what you say in a language which is not your native tongue.
(Second illustration: different cultures and languages have differing numbers of color names. For some time, anthropologists thought maybe people in cultures that had limited numbers of color names could only see those colors. Took a while for them to wake up to the real answer: if they only have names for, say, three colors, it's because they only saw the need to NAME three of the infinite number of colors they could perceive.)
Hope that helps, and best luck.
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