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(SCAN) Seulgi - The 1st Mini Album ‘28 Reasons’

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(SCAN) Seulgi - The 1st Mini Album ‘28 Reasons’

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(SCAN) Seulgi - The 1st Mini Album ‘28 Reasons’

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(SCAN) Seulgi - The 1st Mini Album ‘28 Reasons’

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LE SSERAFIM for Dazed Korea

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My favourite kind of thing in people learning a second or third language is the sliding scale of formality that you never notice before you hear someone using words that aren't wrong, they very consicely describing the matter at hand, but not in a way that a native person would say it.

Like you've just moved somewhere and are having guests over for the first time, and you know your cat is going to be a pushy little shit, and now you have to figure out how to warn people about that. And you know exactly the words you'd use in your own language, but you've never heard them here, so you pick up a dictionary, look up the exact words, learn how to pronounce them, compose the sentence and tweak it until the grammar is perfectly correct, and then memorise it, so you have it prepared.

And then next day you're letting people in and it's been exactly 30 seconds before little Masha is inside someone's purse, hat, shirt, or altogether managing to be in every single person's personal space at the same time, and you take out the sentence you composed: "Pardon, the cat is inevitable."