Woman gets surgery to speak Korean better

[kuro808]

Student Rhiannon Brooksbank-Jones is fascinated by Korean culture, but her shorter-than-average tongue made speaking Korean a difficult task. (Most people would have trouble speaking Korea even with a regular-sized tongue, I'm guessing.)

honestly I wouldn't go that far but because of culture here, it probably isn't needed

[Tuffty]

Lengthening a tongue has it's other perks too

[kuro808]

^ going to attempt to land her?

[Slack]

Never know, maybe she was tongue tied?

[seggahme]

wish got surgury too, to speak japanese better.

[Legend]

Yeah, I've actually heard of people (People who don't know English obviously) getting tongue surgery in order to speak the language better. Parents suggesting it for their kids and all. Read it in an article a while back.

[togusa]

Skeptical - does it really make it easier to speak Korean specifically or was she just bad at speaking in any language beforehand?

[kuro808]

Skeptical - does it really make it easier to speak Korean specifically or was she just bad at speaking in any language beforehand?

Language is a very special thing, that people are very adaptable to certain types of languages.  With our home languages, it doesn't really matter about the physical specimen because we tend to learn and use it everyday.  However, when learning other languages, we have to use the short comings that we are presented.  Like for me, because of the culture aspect I can learn many different languages as compared to others.  This article shows the radical side of language learning that if she had learned something closer in family she would be better at that.  So does everyone need to change a physical aspect to speak another language, no, but with the surgery, she can learn a different family languages that she probably wouldn't have before

[mode107]

I almost thought this was a news article from The Onion.

[kuro808]

I almost thought this was a news article from The Onion.

well from a Yahoo source so its not that bad

[togusa]

Skeptical - does it really make it easier to speak Korean specifically or was she just bad at speaking in any language beforehand?

Language is a very special thing, that people are very adaptable to certain types of languages.  With our home languages, it doesn't really matter about the physical specimen because we tend to learn and use it everyday.  However, when learning other languages, we have to use the short comings that we are presented.  Like for me, because of the culture aspect I can learn many different languages as compared to others.  This article shows the radical side of language learning that if she had learned something closer in family she would be better at that.  So does everyone need to change a physical aspect to speak another language, no, but with the surgery, she can learn a different family languages that she probably wouldn't have before

That's an interesting idea - do you think that this deficiencies would be genetically more rare in the associated cultures where this causes a speech impediment?

[kuro808]

^ I think so, but it could apply to anybody, like people who don't learn English for instance, it takes a while to adapt and sometimes structure does restrict certain pronunciation like in anything, if we can learn from each other like the Pidgin language in Hawaii.  It becomes a better society and eliminate physical boundaries