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Is it rude to reply using English under posts in a language you can’t speak? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I often reply under Japanese posts, and I always assume users will use a translator as I do, but maybe in the context of a Japanese instance or conversation this may look rude?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Just don't expect nuance or depth. Or, in case of languages that aren't closely related to yours, to be understood.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Dos't thou thinks't that the wiley mechanicist can not create an operator that can plumb the depths of language with ease? Our language is as unchanging as the mountains, and shall ever be so.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Nay, I daresay I judge it not possible, goode Sir or Lady, notte now nor e'er.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Varlet! I bite my thumb at thee!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I be not bovveréd, forsooth.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Cheeky trull! Away!

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