Some nerds in California (and to be clear, I love them) legitimately speak English like they’re in a poorly dubbed anime
...and I am wondering now if the causality might run the other way around.
Is “badly” dubbed anime actually well-made to sound like nerds...? 

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A nuanced, valuable thing I’m getting out of my time in Berkeley/SF is getting to hear the small talk and witness the micro-interactions between people. It helps me better contextualize what I see on Twitter, particularly as someone from halfway across the planet
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What are these nuances? I think the 1st thing is that a lot of people are softer & shiftier IRL. It’s one of those things that I kinda believe but was not super certain about, but I’m increasingly more certain. This is universal I think. People are tentative, revise in real time
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Another generally interesting thing is... everyone is so nice. The level of friendly positive small talk between strangers is like 10x more than in SG, it seems like. I imagine this must make socially awkward people feel 10x worse. It’s probably less bad to be awkward in SG
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I found this too, people in SF more friendly to strangers generally, more friendly than London. SF also felt way smaller than London (which it is). I was mostly in Mission for my stay (it’s awesome - recommend)
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