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Is this comedy, or cross-cultural miscommunication? “I’m afraid,” leaves half the thought unexpressed. It relies on a cultural understanding of being afraid of the shame of saying, “no,” to someone.
If there’s one thing I learned on reddit, it’s that every community becomes homogenous once “close enough” posts are allowed so I completely approve of your criticism
Well, in spanish you can say "Me temo que no hago envíos internacionales." Wich traslates as "I'm afraid that I don't do international shipping."
So this is 100% for comedy purpose
I think the premise is that the person would be confused by ending the sentence with "I'm afraid", especially since it's on a second line by itself. It's not that you can't do it in Spanish, it's just less natural and you'd really want to throw a comma in there.
Grammatically it’s a full sentence, but part of the information intended to be conveyed is missing from that sentence. The person is not just stating, “I’m afraid.” Something about being unable to fulfill a request is making them afraid.
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