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by leesec 2640 days ago
Ever been a novice at something hard but still wanted to do it?

Like really, if you were to try to learn Korean (assuming you don't know it) right now, you think you'd have any simple questions that someone who'd been speaking Korean all their life would find absurdly easy?

Everyone starts from somewhere, this sort of ego-ist stuff is toxic. It is okay to be bad at things and it is okay to ask dumb questions.

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The point is you don't ask this question to the korean people, just like you don't ask those kind of question to linus. It won't be effective because they are the wrong person to ask.
I'm pretty sure the point was OP calling people stupid for trying to learn something.
Most questions are easily answerable by learning to use a search engine.

Although I have discovered that sometimes things I remember seeing the answer to before are no longer discoverable by search :(