Oh, I know how that one happened. A rooster is also called a cock, though we don't much use that word anymore, for obvious reasons. Probably didn't know the word and checked Google Translate or something similar.

I have always thought that being able to read, let alone write, Cyrillic cursive is a form of magic. I’ve known a lot of grown Russian men who absolutely could not do either.

I don't think bad marks were justified. This is how I see every interaction go with polyglot colleagues, its like a modem handshake and they settle into the most comfortable common language

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Fun fact, Adam Savage got that quote from an old coworker who lifted it from 1984’s “The Dungeonmaster” which is ‘so bad it’s good’.

Do you find it weird that Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet and King Lear are all written in English? We've been doing this for centuries.

Having a snippet of native language is a more modern invention as far as I know (because if you can't rely on the audience understanding the language, you need to subtitle the snippet), but it's just a way of communicating to the audience in what language the conversation is taking place by showing, rather than telling.

The English dub of the anime Monster has a really funny interaction between the main character (Japanese), a young child (German), and an older couple (English).

Despite the voice actors all speaking English, the main character and child communicate in German. The main character also knows English so he can communicate with the English couple. There are scenes in which they are all together and the Japanese guy has to translate what they are saying to each other, but to the viewer they are all speaking English. The kid and old couple just won't directly talk to each other.

I think MGS: 3 does this best. The entire game takes place in Russia and most of the dialogue outside of with command is with Russians so they just say that the characters are speaking Russian to each other. Pretty the scientist you meet at the beginning of the game even comments on Snakes Russian being good.

second language just means any languages that aren't your first language. not the second language you learn.

I can laugh and not give them the points at the same time.

One time back in AP physics on a test I was prompted with "Find the accelerating force on the electron". I could not think of the way to do that in the moment, so I literally wrote No, and wrote down a fake answer so I could use that number for the next part of the problem. I got back the test a few days later and the teacher wrote a smiley face down there. Apparently I made her laugh so long and so hard her family had to check in on her so she just gave me the points.