Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-31763506-20171218040836/@comment-31763506-20171222001813

FWIW, I'm fairly confidant that in the only language besides English I'm capable of making myself understood in, Spanish, I'm in the same boat you describe with respect to my intelligibility to a native speaker. I don't think you sound like the average ten year old.

It's still possible to piece together the thoughts from your writing most of the time, and they're too complex for most ten year olds.

For someone whose lack of understanding of the language is doing violence to it, the new guy in the speculation thread, FerrumOnFire takes first place, and that appears to be because his native language doesn't use the Latin alphabet, so his stabs at phoenetic transliteration of words he's heard but hasn't seen is causing some rather odd misspellings. Not sure what accent yet unknown to me could make "opvices" out of "obvious". (Bad joke, "states yet unborn and accents yet unknown" is a Shakespeare quote from "Julius Caesar", which is also the source of the phrase "it was Greek to me ".  Wiki has a table of other languages with similar formuations, and it seems most people find Chinese to be gibberish, with Spanish being preferred by Southern and Western Slavs and some of their neighbors.)