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Good luck with that Belamo, it's like pulling teeth.
 
luckynumbah7 said:
Oh, you fit firmly in Anglo. You're an English speaker. I love language, it's full of nuance.
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I ain't not speak no English! :lol:

Yesterday my weekend ride told me I talk like a white boy because I enunciate and whatnot. I didn't wanna hurt his feelings but I was thinking "It's not my fault if everybody from your Bumfuck, North Carolina boondocks city talks like slaves who weren't allowed to read and wright."
 
luckynumbah7 said:
Oh, you fit firmly in Anglo. You're an English speaker. I love language, it's full of nuance.
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Anglo Saxon is the older word for English. Not everyone who speaks English is English or Anglo. I am sure you would object to others devising names for you.
 
You know that Don Quixote was written by Christopher Marlowe AKA "Shakespeare" in English first, then he translated it into Spanish.

That's something, isn't it?
 
purina said:
You know that Don Quixote was written by Christopher Marlowe AKA "Shakespeare" in English first, then he translated it into Spanish.

That's something, isn't it?
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No: Marlowe's MINION (aka Shakespeare) translated it from Cide Hamete Benengeli, and then Cervantes translated it from the English, pretending to have done it directly from Benengeli's work... not bad for a guy who has passed down in history as "ingenio lego" (ignorant wit) isn't it?
 
fabulouslyghetto said:
I ain't not speak no English! :lol:

Yesterday my weekend ride told me I talk like a white boy because I enunciate and whatnot. I didn't wanna hurt his feelings but I was thinking "It's not my fault if everybody from your Bumfuck, North Carolina boondocks city talks like slaves who weren't allowed to read and wright."
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-Pats-

S'okay, people occasionally attempt to mock my rather slight accent. Accents don't count as a change in language and regional dialect term changes are still considered English.

But I'm thinking it was probably neither (well, mostly neither), and you just used more specificity while speaking than most people are used to. In your case it comes out to racial presumptions and someone assuming higher intelligence. A backhanded compliment, if ya will, as it usually comes with a level of surprise. In my case I get questions about my profession, every damned time. Particularly if they're aware of the visual disability; there's an assumption of intellectual incompetence that can be fuckin' overbearing when people sound pleasantly surprised at a well-put sentence.

And then there's the not-so-vague recriminations of speaking, where friends n'family expect you to mimic their diction. Change particulars and people get all antsy believing that change of speech indicates a change of community. To an extent there may be a point there but community is self-inflicted so it would be a circular one. That conception leaks the lack of self-esteem a person has about themselves/their community's representation to everyone who's listening, provided they're in the same grouping.
 
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