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Real Brisker this is a brillian observation and so true! My daughter always tells me that she knows WHO I am speaking to on the phone just by the way I intoneate my accent to the listener. And I do find I am guilty of this actually! I will speak a retarded English to an Israeli immigrant neighbor, or put on a chassidish hungarian accent to another person. Or I can do British accents real good too. I am not schizophrenic either.
After pausing and thinking what you said through, I wonder if we ourselves, as the speaker, don’t have our limitations in what we believe people’s intellectual capabilites are, and rather assume they are only understanding as we understand them.
Thanks for pointing this out.