[kingbirdy]

> I was once unmasked in an old video game though because of a mistake specific to that game and people from my country, a mistake I had internalized since childhood. That was quite shocking to me...

I'm curious to know what the "mistake" was here. Is it something like referring to in-game items via their name in your native language, instead of English?

[matheusmoreira]

Yeah, sort of. The game is Tibia, it has an item called copper shield. When I was a kid, all my friends and I used to write and pronounce it as cooper shield. I internalized that mistake to the point I actually thought the item was called cooper shield despite knowing what copper is.

So decades later I went a gaming community on the internet and suggested we all play this old game. Everything was fine until I said cooper shield. One guy immediately messaged me "br?" and I was shocked. No one else noticed it. Turns out he was also a foreigner who learned portuguese by playing the game together with brazilians and he recognized that specific brazilian mistake.