Napoleon’s “Englich” Lessons

"Even in his own language, [he] had a way of garbling proper nouns; as for foreign words, he pronounced them just as he pleased. Once they left his mouth, whatever way he had pronounced them, they remained forever that, because he had, once and for all, lodged them in his head in that way." It sounds like my wife...

Actually sounds like someone I know who has been diagnosed as having SLI (although such diagnosis is often variable) https://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/specific-language-impairmen...

once they've chosen a word or phrase for something it is a lot of work to undo that choice.

Fascinating to see such an obviously intelligent brain at work under such unusual circumstances.

Secondary language learning is a frustration that spans the ages :)

Napoleon's tomb in Paris is amazing.

This is unreadable in mobile Firefox.

Opened to post this. The text is cut off and wont scroll, why do sites break such basic stuff in this day and age arghh

Works for me when in landscape mode.

At least it works with the reader view mode.