Timeline for I'm fluent in English, but I can't understand names of people and places
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| Nov 4, 2021 at 23:42 | comment | added | user8719 | I think this is an excellent question, and important enough to be worth having several good answers. However, I'm concerned that the overall length is what has resulted in only 3 upvotes, and only one answer (itself upvoted only once). Given that, I've taken the liberty of adding a short summary section to the top, in the hope that it might encourage more interest. Again, very good question. For what it's worth, I'm a native speaker but I'm pretty sure I will never get to grips with Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndro ;-) | |
| Nov 4, 2021 at 23:37 | history | edited | user8719 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Added a summary, to encourage more answers
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| Nov 30, 2018 at 15:15 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Nov 30, 2018 at 15:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglishLL/status/1068520137051926529 | ||
| Nov 30, 2018 at 14:13 | answer | added | Astralbee | timeline score: 4 | |
| Nov 30, 2018 at 13:45 | comment | added | Deolater | If a fellow speaker of your native language were telling you, in your native language, about a Mexican resistance fighter, would you have the same trouble with the name? | |
| Nov 30, 2018 at 13:05 | comment | added | Luke Sawczak | I confirm that this happens to me too in my other languages, especially those where the spelling is not transparent. Just ask for it to be written. Native speakers sometimes have to do that too, as Tᴚoɯɐuo noted above. This is pretty common even for names you encounter daily -- someone says their name is Caitlin and you ask them to spell it because is it Caitlin or Caitlyn or Katelyn or Kaitlyn...? | |
| Nov 30, 2018 at 12:42 | comment | added | TimR | I'm a native speaker of AmE and often do not catch new place names when they do not follow familiar place-name patterns, and sometimes even if they do. For example, who would expect a place to be called "King of Prussia" or "Bird-in-Hand"? With respect to proper names, I think it's mainly a matter of familiarity, not phoneme or morpheme processing. | |
| Nov 30, 2018 at 12:35 | review | First posts | |||
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| Nov 30, 2018 at 12:33 | history | asked | brunnel | CC BY-SA 4.0 |