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Niger and my sons case in afghanistan, when he died he was surrounded by the best friends on this earth, his friends. >> and heres how representative frederica wilson described how those words landed. >> we were in the car together, in the limousine headed to meet the body at the airport. so i heard what he said because the phone was on speaker. >> what did he say? >> well, basically he said, well, i guess he knew what he signed up for, but i guess it still hurts. thats what he said. >> those ar...

Thats what he said. >> those are basically the same words. the reaction to them were completely different. what went wrong? >> well, what went wrong is first of all this. in a situation like this most people would at least pretend a certain way of presenting. language is partly about the words themselves. but its also about tone. in terms of our brain processing language, part of how we hear it is just hearing the melody. thats what comes in first before our brain decodes what the words are. and...