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Native speakers may be fine with it, so why does it feel uncomfortable? A look at rudeness in foreign-language talk
A study found that when people converse in a language that is not their mother tongue, the other person’s words can feel colder or ruder. Linguist Irini Mavrou (이리니 마브로우) and her team compared native English speakers with Spanish-speaking participants who use English as a foreign language. The non-native group tended to judge the same workplace scenes as ruder, likely due to difficulty reading tone, relationships and non-verbal cues, along with cognitive burden.
