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What do the following utterances indicate?

(i) “I told her, through Daniel ...”


(ii) “It’s a cold,” he said finally through Tsetan.

The above utterances indicate the lack of a common language. The author could not converse in the local language and only in English. Hence Daniel was the translator while Tsetan translated the doctor’s words for the author.


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