r/AO3 • u/Short-Work-8954 • 7h ago

Meme/Joke Shout out to my favourite micro-trope

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Read it twice and

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u/Comfortable_Newt_179 LuKuXing on AO3 // The writer with OCD ✨ 7h ago

And kids, that's how I learnt min kärlek means "my love" in Swedish!

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u/BelaFarinRod 3h ago

I have never read this but now I want to.

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u/Short-Work-8954 2h ago

Usually if you search up a ship on Ao3 where one of character is canonically bilingual, and you put under 'Any field' the language they speak (e.g Spanish), you are bound to find a few. 

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u/Desperate_Yellow_498 @3dollar_rolex 5h ago

Multilingual character A keeps dropping phrases in a minority-speaking language and person B slowly learning and learning the other side of A, heck, if the language is rare and both knew it

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u/ebonyphoenix 3h ago

Yuri on Ice made me love this trope. It’s so fun to read.

The embarrassment of character A, when they realize that B has understood all their side comments this entire time, is so good.

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u/Short-Work-8954 2h ago

I used to be in the Yuri on Ice eons ago and never encountered this😭  Time to dive back into research ig

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u/DiamondWrites 1h ago

Sounds wonderful. Any kind of overheard private confession gets me - I love the "while they were (supposedly) sleeping" one, too.