Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 11 months agoWhen you vet someone for whether you can be close friends with them, what's a seemingly unimpactful characteristic about someone that would instantly rule them out as a potential close friend for you?message-squaremessage-square68fedilinkarrow-up187arrow-down17
arrow-up180arrow-down1message-squareWhen you vet someone for whether you can be close friends with them, what's a seemingly unimpactful characteristic about someone that would instantly rule them out as a potential close friend for you?Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square68fedilink
minus-squareredballooon@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down1·11 months agoDoesn’t speak a language I know.
minus-squareSquizzy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down5·11 months agoYou’re only friends with people who can speak the same multiple languages or someone who speaks the only language you know?
minus-squareredballooon@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·11 months ago“A” language, not “all” languages. The point being I can’t see how to become close friends without being able to talk to them.
minus-squareSquizzy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down4·11 months agoExactly which is why I asked for clarification. Your wording can be read as “I speak English and French but this guy speaks English and Spanish so I won’t get to know them because they don’t know a language that I do”
Doesn’t speak a language I know.
You’re only friends with people who can speak the same multiple languages or someone who speaks the only language you know?
“A” language, not “all” languages. The point being I can’t see how to become close friends without being able to talk to them.
Exactly which is why I asked for clarification. Your wording can be read as “I speak English and French but this guy speaks English and Spanish so I won’t get to know them because they don’t know a language that I do”
That would be silly 🙃