Re:The Covid Zoom Boom Is Reshaping Sign Language
by mcguire on Saturday February 27, 2021 @02:45PM
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The downside in public is that the people who notice you're speaking another language will assume that you're talking about them and don't want to be overheard by the victim.
It is less of a big deal than when you're in a social group, where someone could feel that you are deliberately excluding them.
Like generally in public? Or when you're in a social group with others?
For the first scenario, I'd almost always speak a second language if I could, for privacy reasons. And also because it's less distracting to others IMO - people tune out unfamiliar languages as noise but not conversations they can understand. But yeah it's rude in the second scenario.