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Originally Posted by fishsandwich
Plus the psychiatrists used to call me nuts because my English deteriorates under stress. They have a clinical word for it -- thought disorder, I think -- but I don't think it's meant to apply to people who are just ESL speakers.
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Someone who has become my good friend on here is a non-native English speaker. I can definitely tell when he is distressed because his sentence structures deteriorate. I didn't realize there was a word for it. I just thought it must be more difficult for him to translate his thoughts under duress.