"making sure to tone up my enthusiasm (i.e., “like it” → “love it to death”)"
Yeah, had to learn that too in my EU➙US communication ...
https://twitter.com/dingding_peng/status/877982439045554176 …
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Replying to @nicebread303
It's not so much the words, it's the frequency of !!!!
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Replying to @EvoMellor @nicebread303
Will visit the US the first time for SIPS. Given how much I despise fake/exaggerated enthusiasm, I expect they'll absolutely hate me there
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Wait to you see how they write recommendation letters
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I wonder how a German candidate could ever get a job there ...
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Replying to @nicebread303 @lakens and
>until someone said: "Wait, this letter is from the UK." This then led to a reinterpretation of the comment. Disaster averted.
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Replying to @RolfZwaan @nicebread303 and
Uh, don't upset you all but Britishisms don't actually mean multiply it by 10 to get what an American means. Took me years to learn as a
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Replying to @o_guest @RolfZwaan and
Mediterranean but it's way way more nuanced. E.g. signing off email with "Regards" as opposed to "Cheers" or "Kind Regards" actually means
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Replying to @o_guest @RolfZwaan and
"fuck off"... so you might think "quite productive" means very and you might be right, but given pragmatics it could also mean "good at
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Replying to @o_guest @RolfZwaan and
pretending to be working". The British can be quite good at being extremely passive aggressive with a nuanced mix of classism too.
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More here with hilarious translations: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/chart-shows-what-british-people-say-what-they-really-mean-and-what-others-understand-a6730046.html …
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