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** Probably from a dictionary. When you don't speak a language very well, it's easy to glom onto a word and not realize most native speakers don't use it in day to day speech.
*** I second this. I work frequently with people who learned English in an educational setting, and often they speak and write in sentences that are grammatically correct but would never be heard outside a textbook.
*** I second this. I work frequently with people who learned English in an educational setting, and often they speak and write in sentences that are grammatically correct but would never be heard outside a textbook.
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** Probably from a dictionary. When you don't speak a language very well, it's easy to glom onto a word and not realize most native speakers don't use it in day to day speech.
*** I second this. I work frequently with people who learned English in an educational setting, and often they speak and write in sentences that are grammatically correct but would never be heard outside a textbook.speech.
*** I second this. I work frequently with people who learned English in an educational setting, and often they speak and write in sentences that are grammatically correct but would never be heard outside a textbook.
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** Probably from a dictionary. When you don't speak a language very well, it's easy to glom onto a word and not realize most native speakers don't use it in day to day speech.
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** Probably from a dictionary. When you don't speak a language very well, it's easy to glom onto a word and not realize most native speakers don't use it in day to day speech.speech.
*** I second this. I work frequently with people who learned English in an educational setting, and often they speak and write in sentences that are grammatically correct but would never be heard outside a textbook.
*** I second this. I work frequently with people who learned English in an educational setting, and often they speak and write in sentences that are grammatically correct but would never be heard outside a textbook.
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:Probably from a dictionary. When you don't speak a language very well, it's easy to glom onto a word and not realize most native speakers don't use it in day to day speech.
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reticent
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* After the discussion about "the Great Ca-Ca", Cronauer turns to playing a hypothetical situation with one of his students, using a bitchy waitress spilling soup on his brand-new suit to see if he can generate a fitting reaction. The student responds with "I remain reticent." This is supposed to be, in essence, a low-level ESL class; how does a student already know an advanced term like "reticent"?
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* After the discussion about "the Great Ca-Ca", Cronauer turns to playing a hypothetical situation with one of his students, using a bitchy waitress spilling soup on his brand-new suit to see if he can generate a fitting reaction. The student responds with "I remain reticent." This is supposed to be, in essence, a low-level ESL class; how does a student already know an advanced term like "reticent"?"reticent"?
:Probably from a dictionary. When you don't speak a language very well, it's easy to glom onto a word and not realize most native speakers don't use it in day to day speech.
:Probably from a dictionary. When you don't speak a language very well, it's easy to glom onto a word and not realize most native speakers don't use it in day to day speech.
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Gotta start somewhere, yeah?
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* After the discussion about "the Great Ca-Ca", Cronauer turns to playing a hypothetical situation with one of his students, using a bitchy waitress spilling soup on his brand-new suit to see if he can generate a fitting reaction. The student responds with "I remain reticent." This is supposed to be, in essence, a low-level ESL class; how does a student already know an advanced term like "reticent"?
