#but then also being kinda stuck to whatever tone my grammar and vocabulary skills and cultural awareness can bend to

[proteesiukkonen]

I've seen an oc dialogue meme template floating around and I kinda want to fill it, because I have extensive thoughts about the way my characters speak, but there's an ever-present bilingual problem. I'm not fluent enough in English to do personalized ways of talking, like incorporate accents and slang, but filling the template in Finnish makes it for a niche audience and I'm also way more easily embarrassed out of my skin when writing my characters in Finnish in public.

Oh the woes.

#random musings #the blursed bilingual existence #english is way less personal and the blissful ignorance of the exact tone I'm writing in makes it easier to deal with embarrassment #but then also being kinda stuck to whatever tone my grammar and vocabulary skills and cultural awareness can bend to #which I don't think is a lot #like even if I would write this post in Finnish I think I would tonally sound completely different #and I don't know where in the spectrum of formal/casual my usual way of writing lands for native english-speakers #so it's like you win some you lose some #but for the meme specifically an annoying circumstance