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I work for the Internet, at @stripe, mostly on accelerating startups. Opinions here are my own.

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    Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Mar 5
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    Ruriko has been watching Breaking Bad to practice her English, which has been working a little too well, particularly since she does not realize when she is not channeling "native English speaker" and instead channeling "Jesse Pinkman."

    7:57 PM - 5 Mar 2020
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    • Floof Ravi To the Stone I Wheldale England DARK DRAGON, FALCION SWORD... AND マーティン🐈 Will Goddard Dan Waterfield TO33IE Alexander Klink
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      2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Mar 5
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        "Hey is today payday?" "Yes honey." "#%()#) where is my money?!" "Not the contextually appropriate way to say that." "It's cool yo."

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      3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Mar 5
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        I don't routinely have this sort of problem in Japanese anymore but a long time ago: Friend: Can you tone down the politeness a little? It's... weird. Me: I am afraid that I cannot. Friend: Creepy dude. Me: Begging your pardon but I am linguistically incapable of it at present.

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      4. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Mar 5
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        (To compress a lesson into a tweet: there's an informal register which kids grow up speaking and one uses with one's friend. Japanese has several polite versions available, including e.g. the one you use in most workplace conversations. That was least formal thing I could use.)

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      5. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Mar 5
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        ("How bad were you at this?" For "Got a sec?", to a close friend I was interrupting: Contextually appropriate: ちょっといい? Me: ちょっとよろしいでしょうか? It's not wrong if addressing e.g. bucho at the office but yeah I weirded people out a lot.)

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      1. TK4692‏ @TK4692 Mar 5
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        pic.twitter.com/Yzo3hUOyqW

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      2. Matthew Graham‏ @mattysino Mar 5
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        Replying to @patio11

        Have a Chinese friend who loves Breaking Bad so much. They can say only about five words in English but one is “Pinkman” :)pic.twitter.com/NUODEXxolY

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        And the b word?

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      1. Javier Ivern‏ @ivern Mar 5
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        This is exactly how I became fluent in English, except substitute Lethal Weapon 1/2 and Die Hard for Breaking Bad.

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        Has she at least learned the fundamentals of English pleasantries?pic.twitter.com/A29o8F0THg

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        She may be pleased to learn that Pinkman's lawyer has studied your teachingshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKa0kBdiq7I …

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