"Conscientizing" = making people conscious, as e.g. "Conscientizing the community about human rights is the mission of the education department."
On t.v. this morning I watched several news programs I had a hard time following - not just accents, things like stressing a different syllable, such as "The US wants to dump its haZARdous waste in India." Some toxic ship they want to dismantle here instead of there.
And at the office, oh dear, I'll have to concentrate very hard with some speakers.
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Isn't it a trip that these folks are speaking English and yet communication can be so difficult. They probably learned English from someone that had learned it second or third hand from a "native" English speaker. I love remembering how eager folks were to talk with me and hear "native" US English.
ReplyDeleteThis reminds of that teacher at Reed that would pronounce periphery as perry-ferry. Remember?
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