Because English is an uninflected language based on word order Because it's a "world language" This fact is not really a demonstration that the Anglosphere is the most humble and self-effacing linguistic community in the world The opposite, that it's the most rapacious empire
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So if anything I feel like my "internalized racism" (I can in fact see the QTs, thanks) and my role as an enforcer of whiteness' standards was tied up a lot in my teenage self being all "Jesus Christ mom it's pronounced 'Palo Verde', how long have you lived in this country"
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The version of past me that was FURIOUS at my mom, that thought I could DIE, from hearing her mispronounce "La Jolla" or "Sudoku" or whatever, is I think the same part that thought my friend was cringey when she said stuff in a thick white Southern accent, and I'm not proud of it
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Apropos of this, or maybe nothing, when visiting friends on Maui, we play the “Ook-ulele,” but with friends on the mainland we play the “Yuke-ulele” and that’s just how it is
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You get the same cringe factor if your parents grew up in some rural midwestern tiny town and then decided kids would have more better opportunities if they moved to a big eastern city.
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The thing I've actually had a lot of difficulty admitting is that while there are huge, major differences that matter a lot, there are also ways in which my life and the life of someone from a redneck family who went to a fancy college aren't THAT different
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