I wouldn't (and couldn't) change the way I speak now if I tried, but I still do think a lot about how HARD I worked as an ESL kid to "lose my accent" and come up with a "correct" way of speaking
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And how many other Asians who still "have an accent" have no harder a time making themselves understood than I do, without having borne that same emotional cost of intentional assimilation
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So-called "Chinglish" (like "Spanglish") isn't a clearly defined, identifiable thing the way dialects/languages like AAVE and Scots are But it's still a form of language policing, telling someone their own idiolect (their own personal language) is incorrect
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I do think a lot about
@harikondabolu talking about using an accent in his comedy act back in the day and how he's given it up, and how I used to do the same thing and it really was, unavoidably, on some level, "belittling your parents for approval from white people"Show this thread
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