mongoosedadei

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mongoosedadei,

My language is diglossic - it has a written form and a spoken form that are very different to each other. It’s quite difficult to understand the written form if you’ve only grown up speaking and listening to the language, as the written form is essentially the language as spoken in the 1600s.

To compare it to English, it would be like saying “Where are you?” to someone over the phone, but then having to send them “Wherefore art thou?” as a text.

mongoosedadei,

Ah I see, thanks for the correction! (It also kind of demonstrates the problems I have with my own language :P)

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