• Aceticon@lemmy.world
    11·
    5 months ago

    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@feddit.orgEnglish
      2·
      5 months ago

      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