Thread! ~10 years of living in the UK and getting regularly mocked for my accent in a "friendly" way I still find it humiliating.https://twitter.com/vivalaveloz/status/870126785308094464 …
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Replying to @hisotalus
English humour I guess?, I got this occasionally when I was living there, and I'm just from a different part of the UK
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Replying to @RSPian
I think they just don't realize how horrible it is because they are almost always monolingual
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Replying to @hisotalus @RSPian
Abusing bilingual people is definitely a thing. Even children do it.
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They're probably just jealous. As someone trying to learn a different language, I know I am
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Or they generally find my accent funny.
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Time for a voice recording post and twitter poll?
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Why? It's likely to attract abuse. I've had ppl make comments on the actual sound of my voice, including at work, using terms like "bitchy".
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