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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"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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There’s also the problem of non Hispanic people very overemphasizing pronounciations of Spanish words. It’s fine when Hispanic people do it, but cringe when someone who took two years of Spanish does it
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I have a lot of complicated feelings about this because the "correct" tonal version is always mandarin. See: the people who insist Hong Kong should recolonise their name and write it Xiang Gang.
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Okay but "speak one language at a time!" is pretty funny, especially to a native English speaking like me who has a mild stutter. I learned to mask by using UK pronunciation over words I commonly have problems with (i.e. aluminium) & been teased by people saying the same thing
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