With extraordinary effort and considerable talent , it is possible to speak a foreign language , even one very different from your own , like a native . Learning NT social skills and passing for NT is about as hard as learning to speak a foreign language well enough to pass for a native speaker . Some become fluent , but keep their accent . Social skills are sort of like a universal language with lots of different cultural dialects . <| sep |> Looks thicker than mine gets . Then again , I can ' t really see yours . <| sep |> That doesn ' t seem to sync with your comment that more of the electorate is decidedly conservative . <| sep |> Eh WTF , I literally typed this in my calculator 800800500400200100300 3100 Somehow I put in 800 twice . So yeh , 10 K ES , not 13 k . Maybe I ' m biased because of experience , but I ' ve never had trouble obtaining such gear in the first week .