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Is it rude to reply using English under posts in a language you can’t speak? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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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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[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 2 points 6 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.

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 2 points 6 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.

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Varlet! I bite my thumb at thee!

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I be not bovveréd, forsooth.