• AItoothbrush@lemmy.zip
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    1 month ago

    You could say the same thing in english in english because of the many dialects. I usually say place names in the local dialect except if its a language i speak and then you see how language is flexible becuase people who speak the same language as me say stuff differently.

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      1 month ago

      I usually say place names in the local dialect

      That seems like the best way to communicate.

      except if its a language i speak

      So, if you speak a language, you don’t care what the people you’re speaking to understand?

      Oh, this is German, I speak German, I’ll tell Dave it happened in Agram

      “So, I the guy went to Agram”

      “Wait, what’s Agram”

      “Agram, that’s the German name for Zagreb, Croatia. I speak German!”