Post #3621157

2026-06-24 14:17 UTC

"Bilingual character who keeps peppering their sentences with foreign words" is a pretty common trope, but it's not usually how bilingual people work in situations like Marius'. It's just a really lazy way to acknowledge his origin as someone from a different culture. It feels really shoehorned in.

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@BathysphereHat@mastodon.online 2026-06-24 14:19

It doesn't help that the sound set of the language he switches to is exactly the same as English with his GenAm accent, which means that it doesn't sound like a real language, it sounds like simlish.

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