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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

In the opposite direction, when I moved to England it took me a while to get used to compliment "inflation" over there.

For example when somebody's opinion on something is:

  • "interesting", it means it's shit
  • "ok", means it's bad or mediocre
  • "good" and "great", means it's average
  • "wonderful" and "amazing", means it's good

I once asked one of the natives how did they transmit the message that they trully believes something was a 10/10 and was explained that's done by going into details on how something is so great.

[–] Zwiebel 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Meanwhile Germany:

  • "interesting" means it's shit
  • "it goes" means it's bad or mediocre
  • "ok" means it's average
  • "can't complain" means it's fairly good
  • "very good" means it's great
  • "really not bad" means surprisingly great
[–] Knossos@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

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