• @[email protected]
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    1572 months ago

    saying “shalom” or “namastey” or “hola” as a non-native speaker was an irritating “hip” thing to do when that movie came out, and that’s a scene where Peter Parker is trying repeatedly to be “hip” and failing spectacularly.

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      272 months ago

      wait is it genuinely irritating to sprinkle in greetings/thanks/you’re-welcomes in other languages cuz i do that a lot cuz i like learning new words 🥺

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      02 months ago

      I’ve lived in Texas as long as I can remember, but I was born in California.

      Spanish finds it’s way into my everyday speech constantly.

      My family is white as fuck, but my mother became fluent in college.

      I took Spanish in high school for my foreign language credits.

      While I’m not fluent, I’ve worked closely with people who primarily speak Spanish with a little broken English.

      The little bit of Spanish I recall, and the little bit of English they know, allowed us to work together.

      Is that irritating?

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        82 months ago

        no, speaking a second language to communicate with others isn’t irritating, especially in the southern and SW US, where Spanish is so common.

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        52 months ago

        why did you feel that someone, using a foreign word, to look cool, was similar to you using a second language, to communicate with its native speakers? Honest question here. That seems like a big leap in logic to me.