And on the other hand, the rhythms and cadences of speech from home can be so immensely comforting you don't have to actually hear what's going on to be comforted by them. When I lived in California, I would turn on hockey games with the sound turned down so that I couldn't hear the words, just the intonations and patterns. (Of course, I gradually got hooked on hockey that way, smiling fondly and looking up when the familiar voices got excited and then gradually turning up the volume a bit.) I'll bet it's even more so for people who are speaking a different language rather than just a different dialect.
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Date: 2005-02-03 12:22 pm (UTC)