A few days ago
proteusmirabilus

Hi . How to say this ?

Suppose I wanted to say that someone does not have the advantage of knowing a language in which a conversation is being made :

Would they be :

Lingually compromised

or

Linguistically compromised

or

Language-wise compromised

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A few days ago
aWellWisher

Favorite Answer

Lingually compromised sounds like tongue tied or some physical problem restricting speech.

Other two or ok, preferably in that order.

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A few days ago
d.adv0cate
Linguistically compromised is correct. Or you can be more specific if you knew the language, for example if the language being spoken was Japanese, then you would say your friend is Japanese deficient. This is better than language-wise compromised because s/he is not compromised.. S/he does not have enough knowledge of the language, but s/he knows something. Your friend has a deficiency in that particular language.
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A few days ago
SKCave
Linguistically compromised, or even linguistically challenged. I think I would also add the name of the language, eg linguistically compromised in Russian. Hope this helps
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A few days ago
elbart007
language wise compromise and it rhymes
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A few days ago
snoopy
linguistically
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A few days ago
pizza192002
Use all
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