Monday, January 12, 2009
funny things said over the weekend
Our family uses two types of major languages, English and Mandarin, well ok and some Taiwanese phrases occasionally. We also use some different types of Englishes sometimes. My mom has a bit of short term memory sometimes, so she misuses words. One time over the last weekend, she kept repeating herself but always using the wrong words. I don't have a recording, so I'm not completely sure what she said. I do it too. Sometimes it's like I can't think of a word in Mandarin so I try to say it in English, but it comes out wrong. It happens from English to Mandarin too. My teacher from elementary school once said that was called a brain fart. It sounds childish, but sometimes I tend to believe it myself. then, last year, my literature professor called that slippages in speech. Like, we slip up between the(any)two languages and we sound goofy speaking a different kind of English than the proper English we were taught in school. I think multicultural literature can teach you so much. It's fascinating. As for the things we said, some of them were a bit uh X-rated. Hee hee, if anyone wants to know I can post it later. :)
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