• @[email protected]
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    331 month ago

    I may be American and only speak English, but the question of “where are you from?” is still perfectly understandable.

    • djsoren19
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      241 month ago

      It’s kinda wild how well our brains are able to figure out what’s happening from body language and the half of the conversation we get, and can just fill in the blanks of the other half.

      • @[email protected]
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        161 month ago

        The shared Germanic roots of English and Scandinavian languages helps, too. If you read what she’s saying phonetically in English most of it is understandable.

      • @Maultasche
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        41 month ago

        Where are you from? North? South? Sweden?

        • @[email protected]
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          41 month ago

          I thought it might have been Sweden, but I only counted the things I didn’t have to look up to be sure what they meant.