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Is it rude to reply using English under posts in a language you can’t speak? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by fdrc_lm@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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I often reply under Japanese posts, and I always assume users will use a translator as I do, but maybe in the context of a Japanese instance or conversation this may look rude?

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[–] splendoruranium@infosec.pub 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

nah, it’s better for information integrity to reply in the language you understand imo, comments translated using translator services are very obvious anyway and some people are multilingual

Sure, I agree? Maybe there's a misunderstanding here and I should add that it simply would never even occur to me to enter a conversation if I didn't natively understand the language that's being used.