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Is it rude to reply using English under posts in a language you can’t speak?
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this post was submitted on 28 Mar 2025
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Can't speak for others (obviously, as this is about individual etiquette perceptions) but I would consider it to be polite to only enter conversations with unknown parties in languages that the parties have shown to be capable of speaking and understanding.
Using a new language entering a conversation would therefore signal either familiarity ("I know they understand me") or rudeness ("I don't care if they understand me") to me, I suppose.
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.