do bilinguals find their impressions of what others say to be drastically different when mentally translating to another lang?
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i think the range of things i'd be able to tolerate hearing myself say in my native language is narrower
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swearing is an obvious example. What's accepted usually varies a lot between cultures
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yes definitely that.
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do you think it's because of actual cultural differences causing hard-to-pinpoint anticipations about behavior?
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