Favourite way to confuse people? 
- Spouting very obscure but very true facts
- Staring with the details, then adding context later
- Saying grammatically correct medieval nonsense
- really bad puns :)))
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Honestlyā¦ probably not? Iāve done small things in various other languages but I think English works fine for my purposes 
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Well itās very complicated.
If weāre talking ānativeā language, first Iād have to reconcile with my heritage. Iāve been flirting with anti-colonial poetry and incorporating my ānativeā language into English poetry. Itās gonna be synthesised; not exclusively one language.
Iāve tried incorporating Polari into a story, but I never finished it. I donāt think itās possible to write an entire novel in Polari though. Itās technically not a language. But maybe I could try a Joycean approach hmmā¦
I know the odd German & French but not at all close to fluency. It would be cool to learn either of those and publish in that language. Itās such a flex. Jhumpa Lahiri moved to Italy and has multiple publications in Italian.
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Thank you! Iām so so worried but hopeful 
Maybe French? Iām nowhere near fluent in French but Iāve learned a bit in primary school when we had to choose between that and Mandarin. Itās a language that I really hope to re-learn once I get a job and have the money and time to re-learn a bunch of things, and some of my favorite songs and books are originally French!
Ironically I donāt think Iāll be able to write well in my actual mother tongue, Bahasa Indonesia, and I personally have no interest in Tagalog/Filipino even though Iām a citizen on paper. Iām just used to being an English main because it was the bridge between my parents ĀÆ_(ć)_/ĀÆ
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What is your heritage? Iād be interested (for context).
Yeah, for a while I didnāt ehave an interest in Russian either but then I liked it and now weāre here 
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QOTD: help me figure out this conundrum?
I like creating stories but as soon as I have to write them I stop and get really burnt out all of a sudden. because the psychical act of writing prose isnāt interesting anymore, no matter what i do, I hate butting the story into words! in the past, when i actually wrote prose sucesfully, I think I did well because I had a project partner and I wasnāt alone in the writing. I did a bit of writing when she was out of ideas, and then we switched and I was taking a break and she was writing. with that arranvvegment, we made prgress, but i didnāt have to be on all the time.
iāve been considering finding a partner with whom to write a project and/or develop a bookā¦ but I feel like a lot of writers are either too busy to too introverted to commit to taht level of engagement?
opinions?
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Hahaa letās just say I was born in the tropics of Asia.
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I already do write stuff in other languages, but those things are slightly different, meant for a different audience.
As for fictional/dead languages, Iād love to write my main book in Alendi or Alledori. Alendi sounds like a mix of Russian and Sanskrit, and Alledori like German, Sanskrit mixed with Old Church Slavonic.
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I have the same feeling most of these days. And since Iām an AI guy, you could imagine what my solution was.
Okay, but really, be wise about when to and when to not use AI to do this. I mostly use AI as a placeholder these days, keeping the AI-generated text to fill the gaps, and then writing short snippets and placing them in their appropriate places.
Tbh I have the same problem lmao
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More dignified than a certain WASP song I can nameā¦
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oooh okay interesting
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I was mor thinking latin :((( but oh well 
I have like an entire playlist of these songs that I really like and nejoy, sooooo
teehee
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I guess Latin too! But like what way? As in writing a book in Latin or that Alendi/Alledori is more like Latin?
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Book in Latin 
fun fact: the bible is technically fanfiction
Oh. Write your book or my book? Youād write your book, Iād write your book, youād write my book, or Iād write my book in Latin?
More like a compilation of many stories, some of which are fanfiction.
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It WAS just a bunch of drunk men telling stories 
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My book 
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