alt Hacker NewsI lived abroad for a while in a country I didn’t initially speak the language in. One thing I clearly remember is feeling quite different because advertising literally had no effect on me since I couldn’t understand it.
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dijit • today at 3:49 PM
Yep, I've been living in Sweden for 10+ years and have (embarrassingly) not learned Swedish to a native level yet.
The more I learn Swedish, the less ignorant I become to the advertising and "gotcha" headlines on newspapers and stickers and such; and I'm noticing its outsized (negative) effect.
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I have been in a country and I understand the language, not natively but decently. But the ads all are overly cheery, fake smiles, super weird corporate loving language that I can't take it seriously at all.
I know those elements are super common in English, but it seems dialed up to 11 in the other language. I wonder if it's basically the same in English, I'm just so used to it that it doesn't seem as fake.