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I'm ESL and I wouldn't care if someone made fun of me like this. Let people have some fun, not everything has to be responded with with twitter level outrage.
by hwers 5y ago
I'm ESL and I wouldn't care if someone made fun of me like this. Let people have some fun, not everything has to be responded with with twitter level outrage.
- adhesive_wombat 5y agoGood for you: that's genuinely impressive. On the other hand, I have an ESL spouse and people are regularly horrible to them regarding their English (which is actually extremely good), and there have been a lot of tears and a stress disorder because of it. Maybe I'm just over sensitive because of that, but it's far too common that people write other people off as stupid or less able because they don't speak English to a fully native idiomatic standard.
- javajosh 5y agoIn Germany I was GSL and I didn't mind being teased for mispronounciation - hilarity ensues! But I experienced inbound contempt like this once, and I remember it clearly. But it was the contempt, not the tease, that was the problem. I could tell this person, a total stranger BTW, really hated me because I wasn't a native speaker. It didn't matter to them I was trying. (That is about as right-wing as I get, BTW: I believe it's incumbent on immigrants to keep putting effort into learning the language until they sound basically native. To give up early is...rude.) At the end of this short video[0], a (half-thai) young woman says "Would you kindry?" while wearing a stereotypical asian farmer hat. It's funny, and highlights the supreme importance of context in general, and intent in particular. 0 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gem6-suSjSg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gem6-suSjSg