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It is annoying that native speakers of languages other than English correct the way they do. But then again, anglophones have been listening to bad colonial English spoken in one global accent or another for almost 600 years now. Less true of other languages, with the exception perhaps of Latin, 2000 years ago.
I love little expressions and turns of phrase. English is basically the remnants of other languages at this point.
It’s the world’s pidgin, and the world ain’t over yet.
English is already a mess. The only people I’ve ever met who get persnickety about it with non-native speakers are assholes. I’d rather ‘correct’ them with a swift kick in the kisser.
Don’t be embarrassed if your English isn’t perfect. It’s normal, and it’s okay. We’re all learning.
It may be just how normalised it is for English speakers to hear people speaking English imperfectly.
There’s no shame or judgement in it. But when you find whimsy, oh boy.
I still say “delicious” in the way my Greek coworker did almost a decade ago, because it sounds better
And my dog trainer called my dog’s arse his anoos one time and now that’s all we call it. Talking about mine? Arse. The dog’s? Anoos.
Also there are so many dialects with heavy variables that it’s entirely possible to get a group of people all speaking english who can’t understand each other. Throw someone with a thick Louisiana Cajun accent, a West Country dude, and Nevada hick into a room together and I don’t think they’d understand each other. Maybe the hick could understand the West Countryman but that’d be about where it’d end.
My wife worked with a guy from Korea and when he got upset at work he would say ‘I go to mad!’
We randomly say that when we get upset. It’s a more fun way of expressing your anger.
For me, I watch tons of anime and I always find it funny when the characters try to speak English, especially if it’s supposed to be a native English speaker. There are also all of the loan words which they’ve modified to fit better into the flow of the language, but they sound funny/cutesy to me/English speakers.
I am very careful to remind myself that anime isn’t real life and I’d never make fun of a real life Japanese person trying to speak English, but for anime it’s part of its quirky charm.
“Found in translation”
Beautifully said.
This is AI slop.
I was taking a summer afternoon nap with my girlfriend (now wife) and got up to look out the window for some reason about 8 years ago. She got up in a sleepy haze and said “Are you leave without say goodbye?”
We’ve been saying that to each other since.
Can confirm, this is basically how it goes in Texas. Almost a decade ago, my best friend and I were browsing this little hole in the wall shop in central TX run by an elderly Japanese couple. They got to chatting with us and at one point, said we were “forever friends”. I’ve been using that phrase to describe us ever since.
Asahi Imports?
Can’t remember the name of the place or why we were even there, but I’m pretty sure it was somewhere in south Austin.
One phrase I have eaten from Joe Abercrombie for anything eloquenty put is simply “those were good words”. Even simple words hit hard when meant sincerely.
Would recommend the book series (First Law trilogy)!
You’ve got to be realistic.
Say one thing for Logen Ninefingers, say he’s a linguist.
I love how wholesome this is.
Just don’t dig into the history of the account.
In japan don’t you just get jouzu’d for any less than native equivalency and/or for looking too gaijin
And thus how many English words were created.
