• Varyk@sh.itjust.works
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    17 days 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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      16 days 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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        15 days ago

        Howdy howdy howdy!

        I honestly can’t stop greeting people like this, even though I’ve never stepped foot in a place where it doesn’t snow

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        16 days ago

        Unfortunately you are not allowed to speak in tongues outside of those you were born into.

        Also nice username.

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      15 days 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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        15 days 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.

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    15 days ago

    My takeaway from bad Peter’s sad attempt at being cool and edgy? A jazz bar dance? Strutting? But if you think about it, this Peter was raised by a very elderly May and Ben . His idea of hip music is the swing jazz that Ben could have played, his idea of cool is May and Ben watching old James Dean movies. This Peter is an absolute dork, even when he’s trying to be cool

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    17 days ago

    I always read symbiote spider man in this movie as Parker with the confidence to act how he thought would be cool. And he thought it would be cool to answer the phone in an unexpected way.

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      17 days ago

      That’s exactly what it was. He wasn’t supposed to be cool, he was doing what he thought was cool. I don’t understand how people watch the part of him walking down the street finger gunning everyone and miss that.

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          16 days ago

          This wasn’t just a quirk of Burns, but a joke about his age:

          Alexander Graham Bell initially suggested that the standard greeting when answering a telephone should be “ahoy”, but instead “hello” (suggested by Thomas Edison) was adopted.

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    17 days ago

    Ya know, given recent events, certain people have made me aware that I often say shalom, call my baby daughter “bubby” and use other words like “schlep” and “schvitzing,” as though Yiddish was evil. They are, of course, assholes.

    Natural, I’ll continue to use those words because I was raised on Mel Brooks movies, especially Men in Tights, which is a goddamn classic.

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      17 days ago

      Yiddish and Hebrew are far older than and used by those who don’t support current events. It’s like the German language getting demonized in the US (and probably elsewhere) around the world wars; the language didn’t do anything, but people make assumptions of the speakers of those languages.

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        16 days ago

        “You’ve got a little schmutz on you” just feels like the right way to tell people there’s an unspecified substance on them.