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RE: If I'm quiet enough, will I forget my own tongue?

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ce spui?

i was going to start with i am not a writer, but Stef took that :) all of my writing is more of a "catchphrases" writing than anything else.
Last time i wrote in Slovak was probably elementary school, Serbian (not counting job related stuff) probably ages ago. I would not be able to write anything in Slovak longer than a message (and even that would have a lot of grammatical errors :) ).

English i probably just an internet influence. Only language i know that can be understood by larger audience. I am thinking in English most of the time i spend on internet. Or maybe its just the idea of speaking the most common language. Living in a place where in 15km2 people are speaking Serbian, Slovak, Hungarian, Romanian, i was always a fan of speaking a language most in the group can understand.

Do you forget? you certainly do. Am i a different person in Serbian? In writing, probably even more "robotic" 😂

And to prove i am not a writer, you have this rambling as an evidence :)

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ce spui?

Ei nu, esti plin de surprize.

Or maybe its just the idea of speaking the most common language.

I think so. It's one thing that English native speakers can't understand, somehow. I kept seeing it at Hivefest, the way non-native speakers make sense of the language is far more fluid than the people born speaking it somehow.

In writing, probably even more "robotic" 😂

You don't strike me as robotic at all. Maybe a bit shy. But not robotic :) Interesting though that that's how you perceive yourself in Serbian.

And to prove i am not a writer, you have this rambling as an evidence :)

Who are you kidding? If anything, that's a sure sign of writerliness!

Ei nu, esti plin de surprize.

not really, my knowledge of it finishes with a curse word 😁

in high school i lived in a place that is almost half Romanian. So yes, no, hello, good day and several combinations of phrases around pula 😂

Robotic in the sense of writing. Not the poetic writer in English so even worse in Serbian. My understanding is that writing comes from the person but also the exposure and consumption of literature and media. And to be honest a lot of my literature and media is in English for years.

If anything, that's a sure sign of writerliness!

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True, it just needs more structure to it :)

So yes, no, hello, good day and several combinations of phrases around pula 😂

Sounds like 85% of what I hear on the street daily, so I'd say you're good.

My understanding is that writing comes from the person but also the exposure and consumption of literature and media. And to be honest a lot of my literature and media is in English for years.

I think that's true, yeah. I'm the same. This abundance of English-language media is a great treasure for non-native speakers. :)

True, it just needs more structure to it :)

There you go then. You build that. That ain't hard.

A mí me es muy difícil 😁 mantenerme callada 🥴