Mocking someone for mispronuncing a word is a jerk move no matter the circumstances; unless, maybe, it’s a good friend and you do it in a gentle teasing kind of way. But ridiculing someone’s pronunciation when it’s their second, third, or Xth language, especially when you’re monolingual yourself, is definitely not right.
Yet that’s exactly what happened to this redditor. Being trilingual themself, the OP was mocked by their American friend for the way they pronounced a word in English. But the mocking didn’t last long, after the redditor clapped back at him.
Being able to communicate in several languages is not something everyone can do
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However, some people, like this netizen’s friend, mock a multilingual person knowing only one language themselves
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Many netizens believed that Max was in the wrong for mocking his friend
Some, however, thought that the OP was a jerk to some extent, too
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