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It’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 so
by mjklin 6y ago
It’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.