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minus-square@DempstersBoxlinkEnglish2•13 hours agoWell for starters, kids aren’t going to whinge about it- they’re just going to use it, generally correctly for their setting. Headlines when a royal family kid is bilingual, every day regular-ass survival when a poor border town kid does it, unprompted. I mean, the royal kids totally would of got it on their own, right?
minus-square@captainlezbianlinkEnglish1•7 hours agoAren’t royals supposed to be bilingual? Like, that’s part of their job
Well for starters, kids aren’t going to whinge about it- they’re just going to use it, generally correctly for their setting.
Headlines when a royal family kid is bilingual, every day regular-ass survival when a poor border town kid does it, unprompted.
I mean, the royal kids totally would of got it on their own, right?
Aren’t royals supposed to be bilingual? Like, that’s part of their job