Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)
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no, you don't know everything if you only speak one language! no, you won't get it through translation alone! it's one of those things that you have to experience to fully understand i think. i guess there might be some incredibly open-minded monolinguals out there but
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Cat!
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@hikari I want to say all translation is approximation, but I feel like that's not so much strictly true as it is a useful thing to assume.
Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)
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can you understand how nebulous all concepts are when you've only had to learn them once?
Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)
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anyway that's how i paid off the original sin of being born briti— i mean what
Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)
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i think this is what cow tools was about
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hypergirls on a quest
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@hikari speaking of nebulous concepts, I think people here are more likely to use a word like bilingual to refer to languages of childhood, which in turns is also nebulous bc there may be mostly only one of these and the other one is from a bit later
Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)
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@calotriton oh yeah. as i kind of hint at here, i grew up monolingual, and started learning other languages in my teen years
Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)
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oh, you may also find that a different language draws out a different side of your personality. i definitely gravitate to different languages depending on my mood which is interesting