• ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml
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    29 days ago

    Same energy as “your English is so good”. No, I just don’t know normal words.

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      29 days ago

      I just don’t know normal words.

      As an ESL, I felt that in my bones. One time my boss asked me to get the pail to water the plants and my only exposure to that word had been the wailmer pail from the Pokémon games that I misremembered as a “whalepail”. It was awkward trying to explain why I was stumped.