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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But they don't easily understand you. You're being deliberately lazy and shifting the onus of putting mental work into the conversation onto your conversational partner. Now they have to work extra-hard to deciphwr your gibberish. The decent, respectful thing to do is treat them as an equal, and put an equal amount of effort into achieving communication.

Or I could just tell you to flarfle your garglax. Seems perfectly clear to me, so obviously you're in the wrong if you complain.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Did you reply to the wrong comment?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This is literally how babies learn to speak. If babies can do it, so can we.