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As a non-native English speaker, who learned much of the language trough absorbing pop-culture, I feel especially guilty of this. I tend to use words considere
by freeflight 9y ago
As a non-native English speaker, who learned much of the language trough absorbing pop-culture, I feel especially guilty of this.
I tend to use words considered "rude", to many native English speakers, merely for flavor when I'm passionate about a certain topic or argument.
To be fair: I do the same in my native language, I tend to use quite colorful language sometimes, so it's probably more of a personality thing.
- Broken_Hippo 9y agoIt isn't just you, to be sure. I'm a native English speaker, but live in Norway. My Norwegian isn't strong enough to converse at length yet (I'm getting there) so most of my in-person communication is with non-native english speakers, including the spouse. Some phrases simply translate in a rude way: Norwegians seem to have a liking for the word "fuck", which has made its way into Norwegian slang as well. It can come off quite rude back home. For folks I meet that learn mostly through television, it can get even worse because the shows don't always portray dialog in a natural way.
- freeflight 9y ago> For folks I meet that learn mostly through television, it can get even worse because the shows don't always portray dialog in a natural way. Those folks should start watching some fucking proper television ;) Good point about "fuck" creeping into the slang of a lot of other languages, I've witnessed the same very often but never really noticed until you pointed it out like that. Curse words seem to have a certain attraction in that regard, I probably know the equivalent of "fuck" in like 4-5 different languages, while understanding literally not other phrases in those languages.