2026-10-12 01:08 UTC
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@thisisbutaname@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-10-12 08:27
In some capacity, yes. English is my second language and I noticed it feels different (sometimes) to say or think something in it as opposed to my native language. I found that sometimes my brain prefers thinking something in English because it feels more detached than doing it in my native language.
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@Nemo@slrpnk.net 2026-10-12 12:49
No, if anything I sound warmer, because most of what I know is social niceties.
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@yxc999@lemmy.ml 2026-10-15 06:23
Yes, ten years ago when I already spoke/wrote perfect English on paper but didn’t have much experience talking to actual people (CS GO voice chat doesn’t count) I often had times where what I wrote in English would have been a perfectly reasonable way to express an emotion in German, but the other person found it odd. Of course I didn’t literally translate a German expression 1:1, that would not be the yellow of the egg (ha). Instead I struggled to for example with a general way to aknowledge the feelings of the other person, I always got confused responses since the words in isolation were grammatically correct and in German would have been empathic enough, but the, I wanna say, “social weight” of the words was actually way off. Again, I was already speaking perfect English back then, but with no real-world experience. Societal differences may have also played a role, as Germans are generally regarded to be more cold than the English or the inhabitants of the FSA (Facistic States of America) plus me having autism didn’t exactly provide for a good basis of understanding the weight or intended emotion of the words I chose back then. Now I think I have a good understanding, but I have to conciously “translate the emotion” as well as the actual language. So yeah, I completely get you.