Oh no, it's not your fault! I had no knowledge of it, either. I just googled these words and found out. [Still, he doesn't mind filling her in more.] A friend of mine wound up knowing Russian and Japanese all of a sudden and now her English is a little shoddy. Before that, she only spoke English.
[Okay, however interesting 1920s slang might be from the outside, this latest factoid is such a mixed bag that she actually stops rolling the beer can for a second in surprise.] Wait, what? She learned two languages but lost her native one?! Oh my god, my brother would die. And then he would kill me.
[Wait, they were in the middle of rolling a can, weren't they... she puts her hands back on it with a quick.] Oops, sorry. I wouldn't mind learning new languages but losing old ones is terrible! My brother already thinks there's something wrong with me because I asked him how to say 'chocobo' in Finnish.
Still, though. I really can't understand how that would happen. [As if realizing how strange that sounds, she looks around at the towering grocery shelves around them, and grants] I mean, I guess all of this is absurd, so I don't know why this would be any different, but...
[It's because this latest thing sounds universally disruptive, whereas everything else has been at least a little bit cool.]
I guess I have to cross my fingers and hope I get lucky, huh? There's no way to... control it or anything like that?
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[Wait, they were in the middle of rolling a can, weren't they... she puts her hands back on it with a quick.] Oops, sorry. I wouldn't mind learning new languages but losing old ones is terrible! My brother already thinks there's something wrong with me because I asked him how to say 'chocobo' in Finnish.
[and then, after a second]
In his defense, it's 'chocobo.'
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Ah, well, if it's any conciliation, her English is passable, just a bit broken sometimes. I don't know of anyone else it's happened to.
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[It's because this latest thing sounds universally disruptive, whereas everything else has been at least a little bit cool.]
I guess I have to cross my fingers and hope I get lucky, huh? There's no way to... control it or anything like that?