How to Bullshit in a Bajillion Languages
This guy keeps popping into my recomendations, cause I like a bit of linguistic stuff.
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Invisible Wizard - 11th Level MERPer, Tue 16 Jul 2024, 17:49,
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my tip is a bit like piano
learn one long complicated piece, preferably obscure, so well it appears effortless and natural. And then avoid all conversation
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 17 Jul 2024, 5:41,
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I keep seeing videos from one of the guys he's critiquing pop up
Weird looking kid who keeps going into Chinese restaurants or chat roulette and speaking in "perfect Chinese"
But his Chinese isn't that great (he does all the stuff above plus lots of umm ahhh to disguise that he's just coming out with fragments) - it's just that Chinese people (especially in China) are impressed if you know a handful of phrases.
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Zuowan, Wed 17 Jul 2024, 16:12,
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