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Man who calls women "females" hopes to one day be allowed within 500 meters of one (chaser.com.au)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

English certainly feels like a lot more fast moving than Norwegian, can't really speak for other languages. That wasn't even really my point though

My point is that a lot of people seems to have rather strong feelings about something that can often simply be an honest mistake from someone who may not even be fluent in English, let alone understanding the finer nuances of the words

[–] joel_feila 2 points 3 months ago

In some that's true for everyone. Even with in the same language milliseconds can change if you're precived as rude or not. Many people aren't aware of this. We Just internalize a rythm and a bunch of rules. Then some one breaks them an they come off as rude or mean. Its just something baked into us.