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A rant
If I Comment on Your Article in Your Native Tongue, don’t Feel offended
and if you still do, talk to me, I’m that kind of guy who never wants to offend anyone — even his enemies (I don’t even have any enemy)
I have a manufacturing fault — I always try to speak / chat with people in their language even if I don’t know much about their language. And, I do my research to know what their language is.
I grew up speaking four languages daily. Saraiki at home, Punjabi in my neighbourhood, Urdu/Hindi with friends, and English at school. After graduation, I moved to Pakistan’s capital city, where I met people who spoke Pashto, Sindhi, Pothwari, and Afghani Dari. I picked up a few sentences of each and always tried to break the ice with the strangers by speaking in their language when I met them.
Since my first computer in the early 2000s, my typing speed was almost 100 word per minute, and I spent 4 to 5 hours daily chatting with strangers on the internet using MIRC and Yahoo chat rooms. I picked some Indonesian, Spanish, and Russian from there.
