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Re:Ask HN: Those who quit their jobs to travel the world, ho... by cpursley on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @05:18PM (#26417160)
The term broken means something was once whole and is no longer. There's plenty of alternatives like non native speaker, beginner speaker, etc. I'm generally extremely non PC but this one is a pet peeve of mine.

As a native English speaker living in Russia, it really made me realize how difficult and nerve racking language learning and speaking is. I don't consider my Russian skills "broken", just very incomplete; a WIP.

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Re:Ask HN: Those who quit their jobs to travel the world, ho... by jodrellblank on Thursday March 11, 2021 @10:56PM (#26432053)
Broken in the sense "broken line" (https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=broken+line&ia=web); not "once whole", rather "with breaks (pauses/gaps) in it". Like when a conference breaks for lunch, it doesn't mean the conference was whole and now is inferior.
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