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Sun Microdevil Pte Ltd@koakuma@uwu.social (2026-09-08 21:51:30)
@desea
> call myself "competent"
Or, in more colloquial language, say that I "speak" it
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desea@desea@snug.moe (2026-09-08 21:58:02)
@koakuma culture is so chock full of unadressed shorthands, theres souch nuance to a language based on its cultural context too, speaking it is well and good but theres more meat there than just the visible skin layer

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Sun Microdevil Pte Ltd@koakuma@uwu.social (2026-09-08 22:20:02)
@desea Yes, but still, that is my standard; I think I'm being quite reasonable here, no need to be a cultural expert but at least have the knowledge of common idioms (or, at the very least, the ability to bootstrap one up¹ - even in one's native languages, new ones are created occassionally, no?) 

¹In practice this usually means something like being able to notice that something's amiss, then following it up by asking for clarification, and then being able to understand the explanation