[Magdalen] Like I Was Puzzled.

[Roger Stokes]

On 23/12/2014 14:38, ME Michaud wrote:
> I know that international pilots speak their communications in English,
> even in the Far East, sometimes (but not always) repeating in the local
> language.
>
> Did you read the article about the large number of people with perfect
> pitch
> in China and Vietnam? Scientific American IIRC. Learned young as part of
> language acquisition.

No, I didn't but it does show the problems there would be for someone of 
another nationality trying to learn it in later life.  In the Summer a 
young man who has been living in Hong Kong for a year or more talked 
about the same difficulty. It is not really a feasible alternative for 
spoken language and, I would expect, present as many problems as 
Japanese does if trying to communicate by computer.  It is slow and/or 
difficult to learn.

Roger