ONE OF FAVORITE THINGS IN THE WORLD IS “COMMENTS BY PEOPLE WHO DONT SPEAK YOUR LANGUAGE BUT ARE DOING THEIR BEST YET PERFECTLY CONVEY THE INFORMATION”
THERE IS SOMETHING ABOUT MANGLED GRAMMAR THAT GETS CLOSER TO THE RAW HUMAN EMOTION UNDERNEATH THE WORDS
“I hate this”
WILL NEVER BE AS POWERFUL AS
“I am hate this”
At my previous workplace most of my co-workers had limited English, and I miss hearing them speak! One of the Syrian guys would often say “I am I like it” and “I am no I like it”, and several of them were very fond of the phrase “This no good! garbage!”
Another co-worker, an elderly Romanian lady, commented on a bad situation with the beautifully expressive phrase “It is I think, ah, one shit.”
@deadcatwithaflamethrower I feel like this is a very relatable piece of linguistics.
[image text: ”I work with a guy from Mexico who doesn’t speak a lot of English. A Canadian goose mde a nest by one of the paddock gates and hissed at him while he was putting horses out. He comes back to us after and says, “I do not like the cobra chicken.”]
My mom, despite living in the US for like 30 years still can’t shake saying this phrase when she doesn’t like something. “Oof, I can’t handle this crap-shit.” or “This is all crap-shit!” And I’ll always be like mom you don’t need to use both crap and shit in your sentences and she’s like “no I have to”
