Everyone has the right to take pride in the way their community speaks, no language is "right" or "wrong", and all language can be used to express poetry, beauty, wisdom and truthhttps://twitter.com/Lenniesaurus/status/1349195832604700673 …
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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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