CEREBROSPINALECTOMY
Me: "I need an interpreter." Clerk: "There is a tablet on a stand. It does forty languages." Me: "He has aphasia from the stroke." Clerk: "So which language?" Me: "The one he had." Send this to whoever has been handed a tablet instead of an answer.
EXPLAINED (ACCURACY-CHECKED)
Post-stroke aphasia is an impairment of language itself, typically from damage to the dominant hemisphere, and is not a foreign-language barrier; interpretation services do not address it.
Established: aphasia is a language impairment from dominant-hemisphere injury, distinct from a language barrier.
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