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pegusus123456 posted...

I would assume that's just his native, preferred language.

Heaven wouldn't force you to use your second-preferred language.

Yeah, this is what I just assumed.

Even though he's fluent in English, he probably still prefers the language he grew up learning/speaking, so that's what the after life would default him to.

The one thing that could be a slight plothole along these lines though, major spoilers for the entire show below (minus season 3, haven't seen it at all yet):
Don't they say that the auto-translation thing is part of The Good Place "mainframe" kinda thing? Once they try to escape through the bad place to try and get to the judge, wouldn't that no longer apply to them?

I suppose you could argue that since Janet's part of the afterlife "mainframe" she can still do the auto-translation, but there's a good little bit where she and Micheal are separated from them, so there would be nothing to translate Chidi into English/everyone else into French. Unless he just automatically switched back to English the second he realized he wasn't being translated anymore.

Although, even with all that said, you still do have a point that Eleanor made a specific point that Chidi spoke great English, and he responded with him actually speaking French, but that'd still be kinda a weird response considering he actually IS able to speak really fluent English.
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