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[Anonymous No.23122898]

Reading makes people think I’m stupid.
>read a lot, don’t talk much
>initially people think I’m smart
>open my mouth
>constantly mispronounce words because the English language is piss and I say them how they’re spelled
>my friend even keeps a list of words I’ve mispronounced that made him laugh his ass off

[Anonymous No.23122903]

>read a lot in other languages, think in them too
>proficiency in native language dropped to pathetically low levels due to a decade and a half of exclusively thinking in other ones, so when I talk in it people think I'm retarded
T-Thanks

[Anonymous No.23122935]

>>23122903
Did this actually happen?

[Anonymous No.23122947]

>>23122935
Yeah. You can actually forget your native language, as I've found out.

[Anonymous No.23122980]

>>23122947
i want to do this please help me

[Anonymous No.23122992]

I feel like people think I'm insulting them by having a home library and it makes them insecure because they don't read. I wish I had a big house and a dedicated library room so guests wouldn't have to see my books.

[Anonymous No.23123029]

>>23122992
Just throw some genre fiction in there

[Anonymous No.23123036]

>>23122980
>never think in your native language
>never speak in it
>never read in it
This should get you quite far. That being said, if for example your native language is Spanish and your second language French, it'll be a lot harder for your knowledge of your native language to decay.

[Anonymous No.23123065]

>>23123029
Yeah, maybe print out for fake dust covers.
>Oh wow, anon, I love that book, Eat Pray Love
>*opens it*
>Ee... eee... eeenneads... What the fuck is this shit?

[Anonymous No.23123101]

>>23123036
so what should i learn

[Anonymous No.23123151]

>>23122898
Reading makes people think I'm smart.
>read a lot, talk a lot
>people are amazed at my knowledge
>when I don't talk people think I'm deep in thought
>always pronounce words correctly because I have a deep knowledge of etymology
>my friend even keeps a list of vocabulary that he wants to learn, and keeps asking me for advice as he seems me as an authority on the subject

[Anonymous No.23123158]

>>23123101
As in a second language? That's up to you. Ideally though you would learn one that would allow you to live your whole life in it, everybody around you in real life would also speak it, so you're not forced to keep using your native language.

[Anonymous No.23123162]

>>23123158
well im trying to forget two native languages. is there any hope i cant go anywhere where other language is spoken

[Anonymous No.23123189]

>>23122898
Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses.

[Anonymous No.23123234]

>>23122935
yes, I always grasp for words when talking to my family in my native language, I wish my native tongue was English

[Anonymous No.23123242]

>>23123234
If your native tongue was English you would complain about it being not of your own, forced to share it with everyone on Urth.
t. knower

[Anonymous No.23123258]

>>23123242
sounds interesting, my problem is that I just do not possess the vocabulary of a native and it is driving me crazy

[Anonymous No.23123272]

>>23122898
I'm EFL and I've done this mispronouncing thing too. The solution is simple. Just stop caring what people think. Also, your post made me laugh because of this, "Even a fool, when he is silent, is thought wise." KEK. It's from Proverbs--can't recall exactly where though.

[Anonymous No.23123277]

>>23123151
Rot.

[Anonymous No.23123278]

>>23123162
I wouldn't say that there's much hope. If you live in a country where the languages that you want to forget are being used then the only way to forget them is to neet it up for a good decade or so with absolutely zero human interaction, including with your own family.

[Anonymous No.23123312]

>>23122898
Post a vocaroo of you reading this sentence aloud.
>I may contrast the monistic and pluralistic forms in question as the 'all-form' and the 'each-form.' At the end of the last hour I animadverted on the fact that the all-form is so radically different from the each-form, which is our human form of experiencing the world, that the philosophy of the absolute, so far as insight and understanding go, leaves us almost as much outside of the divine being as dualistic theism does.

[Anonymous No.23123969]

>>23123312
No but here is a part of my friend’s list of words I fucked up.

[Anonymous No.23123984]

>>23123969
>philli-peenyo
KEK. The Psalm one is a pretty fair assumption, though.

[Anonymous No.23123998]

>>23122898
I sometimes say words in a middle english pronounciation out of habit and people think I'm a spastic.

[Anonymous No.23124018]

>>23122903
this is happening to me too right now, except was I once great with my native language and now I am shit with both native and second languages

[Anonymous No.23124037]

>>23122903
Same. I try to make up for it by using a lot of French and Latin loanwords/cognates in casual conversation. They think I'm a retard till I drop that Nolens Volens

[Anonymous No.23124044]

>>23122903
That reminds me of Tolstoy mentioning Russian aristos taking Russian lessons during Napoleon's invasion.

[Anonymous No.23124073]

>>23122992
Because they are right, and even if subconsciously, this is what you're doing. Having a home library is a performative action.

[Anonymous No.23124074]

>>23122935
Im a terminally online ESL so I mainly think in English and mostly read and listen to English stuff

I mean I can communicate fine in ny language, but often an English word pops into my mind mid-sentence and then I slow down to either translate it (sometimes can't be done to sound naturally, so I have to rephrase the entire thing making me sound even more retarded), or if I know the othet person speaks English well I just say the English word if it won't make it sound too pretentious

[Anonymous No.23124134]

>>23122898
>constantly mispronounce words because the English language is piss and I say them how they’re spelled
idk man maybe you are just retarded.

[Anonymous No.23124161]

>>23124074
what is your native language?

[Anonymous No.23124175]

>>23122898
it takes 3 seconds to check pronunciation, maybe you are stupid

[Anonymous No.23124294]

>>23123969
>eppa-tome
Don't worry. I mispronounced this one in college until a professor corrected me in the middle of a class.

[Anonymous No.23125211]

>>23124044
>That reminds me of Tolstoy mentioning Russian aristos taking Russian lessons during Napoleon's invasion.
Top Russian aristos of early XIX century did not take Russian lessons becuse they forgot it - they typically never knew it in the first place.
>Parents spending most of their lives at court (everyone speaks French) or abroad, never have to even use Russian even if they know it
>Parents are not raising children themselves, they have hired tutors for that. All the good tutors are foreigners.
>Good educations involves reading/listening to classical works, math textbooks, epics and drama. Nearly none of them are translated into Russian yet
Before Pushkin and Co it very much was a peasantry language.

[Anonymous No.23125228]

>>23122898
You played yourself

[Anonymous No.23125235]

>>23123969
Epitome I’ve pronounced that exact same way for a long time. I actually don’t give a shit. People say no man is an island but I’d jump at the chance to live a castle surrounded by a moat filled with sharks.

[Anonymous No.23125631]

>>23123969
your friend is a cunt

[Anonymous No.23125640]

>>23122898
>constantly mispronounce words because the English language is piss and I say them how they’re spelled
You are stupid.

[Anonymous No.23125651]

>>23123969
>keeping a list of a friend's mispronounced words
based evil friend

[Anonymous No.23125652]

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[Anonymous No.23125654]

>>23124073
>Having a home library is a performative action.
What?

[Anonymous No.23125657]

>in university
>trying to show off and namedrop some french guys
>"Michael Fookalt"
>"Albert Kamoos"
>get corrected immediately

[Anonymous No.23126891]

>>23125657
I bet you say “foyer” wrong too