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I have found that being at the receiving end of cursing in your non-native language appears to greatly reduce the effectiveness of the cussing as finer points a
by rixrax 6y ago
I have found that being at the receiving end of cursing in your non-native language appears to greatly reduce the effectiveness of the cussing as finer points and nuances get lost in the translation compared to being reprimanded in my native language.
- mjklin 6y agoIt’s odd hearing foreigners curse in English because it seems they haven’t quite earned that right. You know their mothers never washed their mouths out with soap!
- livueta 6y agoSomeone upthread said something similar about apologies also being easier (to deliver) in a second language: I bet that just as a non-native speaker's English cursing feels oddly empty or off to native speakers, apologies come off as insincere. At least that's how I feel about formal apologies in my second language: I can know all the fancy form language, but delivered without the accompanying deeply-socialized guilt/remorse/shame it's just so much hot air.