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Is it rude to reply using English under posts in a language you can’t speak? (self.fediverse)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by fdrc_lm to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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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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[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 2 points 4 weeks ago

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 4 weeks ago

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

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 1 points 4 weeks ago

Varlet! I bite my thumb at thee!

[-] Lumidaub@feddit.org 2 points 4 weeks ago

I be not bovveréd, forsooth.

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