When I was young I learned all about Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell and how they invented the telephone and talking machines. I knew they had lived close to my house and obviously spoke English. It was my impression then that these devices only could be used while speaking English. How lucky was I to be able to use these wonderful devices. It perplexed me to no end then, how a French speaking person was able to talk on the telephone and get it to work!
A childhood belief about telephones
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that Alexander Graham Bell was not just one person. I thought that they were three people!— J.D.
- I used to believe that anyone speaking a foreign language translated it into english in their head— galen
- I used to think that everyone had a little person just like them that all lived in the telephone.— Jenni
- I used to think that even people who spoke something other than English, thought in English— Peaches
- I used to believe that people who were speaking foreighn languages were just speaking gibberish.— Zoe
- Growing up, I thought that my family that spoke Yiddish were speaking in cursive.Anon