I think that after word choice/natural usage, emotional expressiveness is the hardest thing to pick up as a foreign language learner. I feel like it isn’t taught in any kind of useful way and very difficult to correct/change once habits set in.
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I think that what seems performative to us as second language learners is just raw anger in natives. It’s hard I guess to learn to express those raw emotions through language as an adult.
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Oh yeah, I mean from my perspective as the second language speaker it’s “Darn it, novel linguistic task occurring under conditions of stress where I need an unsympathetic audience to have a very tight bead on my intent to harm their interests.”
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And there are multiple levels, right, and theoretically you’d want to drill “OK I’m miffed but not enough to speak to your manager about it” and also “You will stop that, immediately, or I will call the police.”
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