And "You don't actually need to know Taiwanese to live in Taiwan Mandarin is the common language of all Chinese people as English is in the United States and that's how it should be" Even though he literally grew up in Taiwan and knows this is factually inaccurate
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I feel like this is linked to his weirdly hypocritical anger about seeing Spanish-language stuff everywhere after we moved to LA Even though English wasn't his first language either and he took advantage of Chinese-language stuff wherever it existed
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Like textbook model minority shit "If they come to this country they should learn this country's language, they shouldn't expect everyone to accommodate them" "The US doesn't *have* an official language, and are you saying people shouldn't have accommodated you?" "They DIDN'T"
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Anyway it's just funny seeing nationalists of different imperialist nations defending each other, in order to strive for some kind of ideological consistency The whole "independence question" is an *extremely* volatile third rail among my Taiwan relatives
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I think you misread the situation here.
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I still remember the day I learned about dialect continuums and how, from a linguistics perspective, there's no such thing as a "real" version of a language. Mind blown
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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The language generally known as "Scots" is Scottish Gaelic which is 100% a different language than English, in the same group as Irish Gaelic - the one that is more of an English dialect is Ulster Scots, think there's some confusion going on here
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This is about a young woman who went viral for writing poetry in Lowland Scots, like Robert Burns
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