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apr. 28 '26
how important is your language to you? not just, but your vocabulary? do you feel like you use your language well (not in some sense of honouring it, per se, but to express yourself)?
apr. 28 '26
how important is your language to you? not just, but your vocabulary? do you feel like you use your language well (not in some sense of honouring it, per se, but to express yourself)?
It's quite important to me. It's a reflection of myself in a way, my habits, what I think about in day to day life. Sometimes I type or talk stupid, meme everything I say, or I get very wordy and lengthy like this right now. I like to think this duality in my speech represents me as a person too. I've been told I'm quite funny but at the same time I'm quite intelligent (I am not glazing myself, I keep getting told this throughout my life), and I think my speech also expresses how those two connect, or maybe I'm just connecting nonexistent dots. Either way, I like the way that I speak, even if it turns to nonsense to me sometimes.
I like how creative people can be with languages and how they can change, evolve or weave narratives. I also feel like language alters how one communicates, and I think the language/dialect spoken by my father and mother respectively are more lively than English, so I feel as though I become more outgoing when speaking them as a result.
Language is something that I've always been insecure about, especially as an autistic person, because I know I can come off as either too childish and stupid or too rude and pretentious. My tone fails to match with how I feel sometimes and it is very embarrassing. I'd like to better conduct myself in this way but, uhm, unfortunately I am stricken by.. terrible anxiety to do anything about it.. I try to expand my vocabulary and such too, but am ever discouraged by the sheer amount of people whooooo kind of lowkey need to go back to the second grade maybe.. The type of people who would shiver in fear at a word as small as "stupendous".
It is okay tho becauuseee... I have this awesome guy named Callie, who is my friend, and he likes that sort of stuff and it's like,. well. If I get good at it then Callie could notice and then he could appreciate what many others cannot. Anyways. I try to be better at Language based things..
veryyy important.. its paramount that i can express myself well enough for others to understand me, and i really want to expand my vocab more!! however, that doesnt mean im good at making myself understood.. i often times forget a certain word and get stuck in-between my sentences, which sucks ASS!!!! otherwise, i think i express myself pretty average, though id like to be creative with it more!
i meow to my friends and family and they understand what i mean, so i don't really think it's too important for me, though i do like to learn new things and languages, i'm ultimately going to mimic the speech style of the nearest person so, nothing i can really do in that department.
japanese though, when i started learning it i only knew about textbook phrases and whatnot, but then i started diving deeper and started noticing how anime characters aren't really speaking a whole different beast from textbook formality, so i saw myself learning the quirks unconsciously, and it's kinda annoying how fun it is to see different dialects or more-than-formal japanese be used, i'm not at all fluent but i think JP is one of the most expressive languages i know (even though you obviously don't get to use much of those styles when actually learning the language.)
My vocabulary and grammar is very important to me. How well I talk is of the most importance. But English itself isn't important to me, I'm trying to learn more languages.
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