From: brendawriter@yahoo.com   
      
   You know what I would do? I would go train your ear. Not the eye, the   
   ear. Listen to people of a certain group, or class, or era, talk.   
      
   And! The internet is your friend in this. I would go over to   
   storycorps.org, and start listening to oral histories. WWI veterans, or   
   Nebraska farmers, or people who came over from Lithuania fleeing the   
   Nazis, or second-generation Kkoreans. Find a group (not too big, not too   
   small) and listen to them all. Or if you want to wander slightly further   
   afield, there is a UK equivalent. And over at the Imperial War Museum   
   web site they have oral histories of various vets.   
      
   It's not in crude things like subject-verb order. It's in word choice   
   and cadence. That's how you manipulate foreign-ness. You can only pick   
   that up by ear.   
      
   Brenda   
      
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