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Re:Native speakers are hard to understand in a lingua franca... by jakub_g on Thursday May 20, 2021 @04:22PM (#27226675)
Meeting in person and regularly is extremely underrated.

This can happen also within a single culture. When two companies do some business together but instead of meeting often and talking directly (or zoom), spend weeks to carefully craft emails and never talk face to face.

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Re:Native speakers are hard to understand in a lingua franca... by ezoe on Thursday May 20, 2021 @04:48PM (#27227020)
It is exploited.

There are so many evil politicians who order to murder people or made the laws which restrict human rights. But if you meet them in person, you will definitely feel they are nice person.

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Re:Native speakers are hard to understand in a lingua franca... by behythoyg on Friday May 21, 2021 @08:25AM (#27233131)
This is a really interesting point.

Malcolm Gladwell: "The people who got Hitler right were those who never met him, and the people who got him wrong were those who did spend time with him."

Here's a clip from an interview with Gladwell on this subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvOilwY0yOQ&t=178s

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