a place both wonderful and strange

A girl of about 6 or 7 was babbling nonsense words at her mom and I thought to myself 'she should be able to form real words and sentences by this age' but then the mom responded in kind and I realized 'oh wait, they're speaking french'.

My toxic European trait is thinking I can understand writing in any language if I just focus hard enough

I don’t know which I find funnier “fuck shit up” or “faire smashy smashy”

TO DO SMASHY SMASH

All I can think abt is that one quote that basically just describes that you can’t be your true self in your native language bc there’s too much emotional attachment, but that second languages allow speakers to be truly free with their words

Part of doppiaggese is also the use of così (“so”) as an intensifier instead of -issimo or molto/tanto + adjective. Non-natives are more likely to say things like *sono così felice (weird, not super grammatical, slightly artificial, sounds like it’s a badly translated episode of The Bold and The Beautiful) instead of sono felicissimo / sono davvero felice / sono tanto felice / sono molto felice.

i love this so much

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europe is so weird because you have like all of southern europe with like just incredibly good and flavorful culinary traditions and then you have countries like the netherlands where you’re surprised they haven’t figured out a way to boil peat from a bog to serve it on a plate, unseasoned

using languages other than your native language like