Unfortunately this has turned into a politicized thing by which people judge each other ("knowing" that "chai tea" is "wrong" is a signal that you're worldlier, more educated and more culturally sensitive than someone who doesn't) It's all kind of a shitty situationhttps://twitter.com/Miandre/status/1330654453024755712 …
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I had a convo with another Chinese speaker who got annoyed at me for using tonality in Mandarin words in an English sentence "Why are you talking like that? It's not Táiwān, it's just Taiwan" "It's Táiwān in Chinese" "But we're speaking English! Speak one language at a time!"
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"You don't see French people going around saying Pah-ree in English do you? That's how you get beat up"
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(Lapsing into tonal pronunciations when speaking an otherwise atonal language is legitimately jarring and confusing since it breaks up the flow of English's own subtle tonality by which a sentence flows More importantly, it comes off as "fobby", which in LA was very bad)
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(There are a lot of disadvantages to being the only Asian person you know, but the thing about being in a large community of other immigrant families for the first time is it can in some ways be worse You find out all the things you were doing wrong)
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What annoys me is putting tildes where they don't belong like saying habañero for habanero...
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This is a very obnoxiously Midwestern opinion and I disagree with it completely
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It’s not about “showing how smart you are” (although thinking that’s something to be hidden is ALSO obnoxiously Midwestern), it’s about being intelligible to people who expect the word to sound like “Pa-ree” and hear “Pear-iss” and don’t immediately get it. It’s about audience
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