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being multilingual doesn’t help
i forgot the whole concept of what i forgot
“I can’t think of the human phrase for that”
still buffering. please stand by
It’s so random, too. I’ll forget the word in languages that I’m fluent in, but remember it in Japanese or French or something else that I only studied a little bit of.
I end up having to describe the concept I’m trying to recall and hope that whoever I’m talking to can put the pieces together to help me find what word I’m looking for. Brains are weird.
The point isn’t to be multilingual, though. It’s to lie about being multilingual because you forgot a word in the only language you speak.
kurwa
mać
It happened to me once.
And now I don’t remember at all what it was about.
Nah, anybody i know already knows I don’t word good.
why use fancy word when good word do trick?
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Word?
Depending of tone and context, they might think you’re both.
When my mom’s best friend started to develop … I’m not sure, but some kind of age related disorder that caused her to forget words … She would just use “tree” in place of the word she couldn’t remember.
She expressed this to her friend group and they all just extrapolated the actual word intended and went with it.
I always remember it in whichever language is least understood by others in the moment
What if I forgot the word in several languages?
It means you’re byelingual.
Or people will just think you’re illiterate in two languages.
Just insert a random word from a language your conversational partner doesn’t speak.
As an Estonian, I offer the following interesting sounding options: türa, jäääär, ajukääbik, kaksteist kuud, sõlmenditolgend
randomly inserts Cantonese words
“Sorry, what I mean was…”
starts speaking Mandarin
(The reverse is also true, I could visit China then randomly start using English… and they’d be like: “Wah, you went abroad? 好厉害啊！”, at least that’s how I imagine it to be like)
“It’s missing that, uh… French for certain something.”
“Je n’ais ce quoi?”
“Who the hell is Jenny and why should I care what she said?”
How do you spell ocurance?
Me recently…
no, because you should say the word in your native language anyways.
you have missed the point. you don’t need to know any other languages to use this approach.
Some people don’t have one
Prayers going out to all the people without a native language 🕊️🙏
what??
how would that work???, living alone in the jungle until adulthood and only then learning?
or is a shit americans say kind of thing?
not sure what OP meant, but it reminded me of the forced assimilation of peoples in a colonial setting, where a potential scenario is that
- the grandparents speak their native language fluently, and the dominating language almost not at all
- the parents speak both the native and the dominating language, but badly
- the kids speak the dominating language fluently, and the native language almost not at all
So in that case the parents can be seen as not having a proper native language, because they have two languages they can sorta make work, but can’t fully express nuance and complex thought in either.
Then said language is not their native language.
The nativa language is the first one you learnt as a kid, the one your parents taught you.
So it is a “Shit americans say” after all.
That was a joke but I agree with Kazerniel
works if your white
