When you are not a native speaker, people keep finishing your sentences for you. Even when you have no trouble expressing yourself. The smallest of pauses one might make is interpreted as a struggle with insufficient vocabulary. As if people with enormous vocabularies never needed to think about what they are saying.

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    David Bellamy

    Some people do this with children, too. Most annoying.

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