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celticeagle @celticeagle (189833) • Boise, Idaho 12 Mar

I had to change my insurance this year to Humana and decided to go with their mail order pharmacy, Center Well Pharmacy since the one I used here wasn't listed as one Humana used. I have had nothing but problems with them. They...

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Different Types of the Same Language

Madison Ogashi @MaddiOashi (183) • United States 12 Aug 15

My last post about language on the computers and such, made me think of something else in the foreign language area. I suspect everybody in the world is aware of the immigration problem here in America. Spanish everywhere! I'd...

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Where are the members of this site go?

Manilyn Cash @mgbcash (3) • Christchurch, New Zealand 14 May 13

Two years ago, I joined mylot for blogging interests me so much. But reading other people's blogs made me gave up. They speak English fluently and they seem to have many ideas all the time. Every time i came online before I just...

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People We Met

RickLynn @RickLynn (33) • Philippines 23 Dec 12

As we grow older we meet many people from walks of life, from other places and other nationalities. We sometimes adopted their cultures, lifestyles, manners and thinking. When I was working abroad I had this culture shock. Need to...

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Language Barrier !! :)

nelerkz @nelerkz (467) • Philippines 24 Nov 12

English is a universal language, you can use this dialect wherever we want to go. I'm here in Thailand for a job purpose to teach conversational English to the high school students but some has difficulty in it ! not all ... I was...

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I think I am addicted to metaphors and idioms

Your Highness Emperor Albert Whisker @CaptAlbertWhisker (32760) • Calgary, Alberta 5 Jan 11

I always try to keep my English as simple as possible but whenever i get carried away I have tendencies to use a lot of idioms and metaphors, which caused a lot of misunderstandings many times. I dont know if it has something to...

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My Being from Non-English Background Cannot Prevent Me From The Fun Here

theSids @thesids (22180) • Bhubaneswar, India 30 Dec 10

Hi Mylotters, I am making a confession here - I am not from an English Speaking Background. Many a times, I am not that good at understanding the slangs, the jokes and many other stuff (of late I realize...

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When the discussion didn't run the way you wanted to be

Your Highness Emperor Albert Whisker @CaptAlbertWhisker (32760) • Calgary, Alberta 29 Dec 10

i'm sure some of you guys experienced this, You created a discussion but because of language barrier or maybe people trying to be unique with responses, So yes no one gets your discussions and the responses are not what your...

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misunderstanding

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I misunderstand something and fill clarified on it now..........

celticeagle @celticeagle (189833) • Boise, Idaho 15 Sep 10

I have gotten a bit irritated and flustered over the language barrier on here. I feel I misunderstand the set up of Mylot and how it all worked until today when I got a response from one of my responses from one of my favorite...

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kate's marital problems threaten dancing performance. what?!

Ritchelle @Ritchelle (3790) • Philippines 13 Apr 10

i didn't read the whole text but something is wrong with the sentence that is almost copied word for word. that type of dancing of kate's can still be threatened?! i do know that natives of a language can have statements that mean...

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Language Barrier: does it really matter?

ip5217 @ip5217 (1655) • Philippines 3 Oct 09

I know our conversation will be more spontaneous if we speak to someone who speaks the same language as we do. However, there will really come a time where you will have to interact to someone of different race and culture. I...

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Do you offer assistance to tourists from other countries?

Quiplet @Quiplet (255) • United States 10 Sep 09

I live in a tourist area and hear foreign tongues often just while walking down the street. On occasion, I get stopped for information, or to be asked to take a picture. Sometimes we cannot communicate because of the language...

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My new boss has arrived!

gr8life @gr8life (6251) • Malaysia 24 Apr 09

As most of my friends who responded to my discussion earlier (about my boss) would know that I am going to get a new boss in April. At last, the time has come. My new boss arrived here last Tuesday. I was the happiest local...

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Language barrier..

Margarit @Margarit (3676) • Philippines 8 Dec 08

For those not english speaking countries, Have you ever incounter having difficulties in translating the words or sentences you wanted to say for you dont know the english translation of it? How do you deal with it if you...

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Do you listen to songs sang in other languages?

augustine87 @augustine87 (173) • Philippines 10 Apr 08

I do. I think songs, and music for that matter, goes beyond the language barriers and touches the heart and the soul directly. There is music that makes you cry even though you don't understand the lyrics or even though there are...

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Would you take a job that's "below you"?

wrld_n_harmony @wrld_n_harmony (695) • United States 14 Mar 08

So I currently have a master's degree and quite a bit of experience in my field. I've been unemployed since last fall because we moved to a small town near Mexico and I don't know Spanish. We don't HAVE to have extra income, but...

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What would happen if humans can no longer communicate with each other?

spiderlizard22 @spiderlizard22 (3443) • United States 23 Nov 07

What if each individual human spoke a language only that individual knows? For example say there are excatly 6 billion people in the world and there are 6 billion languages and each person knows a language that the other don't and...

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Lost In Translation: On Living Abroad

r_e_e_z_25 @r_e_e_z_25 (5) • China 11 Aug 07

Its about a month since I came here to China to work. And I must say, it didn't took long for me to feel lost. The LANGUAGE itself makes you feel numb. Having have to work with workers you cannot understand is such a huge burden,...

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Are you married or in a relationship with a foreigner?

mjsg2468 @mjsg2468 (44) • Philippines 22 Jun 07

Would you mind sharing with us your story? How did the two of you meet? Are your family and friends ok with it or are they against it? What is your plan for the future? I hope this thread can bring about positive and inspiring...

There's even a language barrier between the US & UK...

Shannon @visitorinvasion (7709) • United States 2 May 07

Over the past few months here at MyLot, I have come to realize that even though English-English and American-English are much the same but spelled differently in many cases, the SLANG is way off the mark. My very good friend...

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