Re: THEORY: language and the brain [Interesting article]

When the difference between Left and Right handers came up I wondered if
my inability until I was maybe 6 or 7 (with the help of speech therapy)
to pronounce T and D (as in english th) was because I was left handed or
whether speech difficulties were more common or not in left handed
people. I was just saying I'm glad I learned because where I live,
replacing T with f is seen as, well, an indication of stupidity
basically, and possibly lower class. Its not how you want to talk in a
job interview or anything like that.

>Quoting Chris Bates <christopher.bates@...>:
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>>I'm glad I learned them now (although for me it was more difficult than
>>just being told by the teacher, I struggled for quite a while) because
>>where I live at least, pronounced T as f is looked down on a lot.
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>Chris:  do you think you could quote the material your responding
>to?  The only reason I can follow your comments here is that I've
>been following the rest of the thread. -- Thanks.
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