[ SECRET POST #3434 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3434 ⌋

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Comments

[annethecatdetective]

Depends on how it's done and what in... There are things that used to piss me off because it felt unrealistic for the only foreign word in a sentence to be the 'easiest' one for a writer who wasn't fluent in said foreign language to slip in... but then I wound up in a group with some bilingual friends who really do speak that way, where just without thinking about it, a stray word will wind up in the middle of an english sentence-- totally understandable, not breaking up the flow of the sentence when heard the way I'd always felt it would if I saw it written out...

But sometimes it does just feel wrong/weird, I mean... look, we've all seen cringeworthy 'fangirl Japanese' in fics (substitute whatever language, depending on fandom I guess), and it can come across as really unnatural, especially if the word choice is just a bit off.


Mostly I can deal with it even when it feels awkward, though-- it only really bothers me if I'm supposed to be in a fantasy universe where I'm accepting that everyone is speaking English purely for the audience's benefit, and that in their world, they're speaking their own language, and I'm all immersed and then someone speaks some really glaring bit of another earth language. I mean, it depends on how it's done and what the universe is, whether there is a connection to our world or not, but that's the kind of thing that will make me stop reading.