> 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?
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.
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?