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> Help a tourist out, they'd do the same for you in their home. Gracefully accepting corrections when your language is incorrect are part of receiving help. I
by sklivvz1971 10y ago
> Help a tourist out, they'd do the same for you in their home.
Gracefully accepting corrections when your language is incorrect are part of receiving help.
If I were to write these posts in broken Itanglish do you really think native speakers would not correct me? Would it be acceptable to call them "narrow minded"?
I'm all for helping but please stop assuming that a US-centric point of view and language are the default for everything. For most people on the internet, neither assumptions hold.
- swimfar 10y agoI think the point wasn't that you shouldn't help people understand your language or culture. It's expecting everyone to know this stuff automatically and looking down on someone for not knowing everything about it. That isn't very nice/fair. "Yes, people are not really aware how ignorant and arrogant they look when they use the wrong Italian words to describe Italian food "
- SmellTheGlove 10y agoGracefully accepting corrections is fine. I get that plenty when I visit Italy, and Italian is my first language even if it's decayed a bit. You don't make it sound like you're doing it constructively, though. Not sure if it's your intent, but you're coming across as though Americans are ignorant because they don't grasp the finer details.