Native languages --- Thanks Nathalie and Fritz. You're both right. I'd add that some languages, and perhaps English especially, have a lot of variations as between the way they have evolved in different settings. I used to make a point of getting to know the interpreters at conferences - long conferences especially - and get hints from them about what works and doesn't work for the interpreters. That taught me a good bit about how best to speak in understandable English to native speakers as well.

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