I have been deconstructing so many of my internalized linguistic stigmas with #RazingBabel, like I’ve actually linguistically studied interlanguages of my own speech communities but never represented them in text bc I’m like “what if people think I’m doing “””broken english””””
but it’s like… omg… I’m not responsible for readers being racist, I grew up hearing literally dozens of languages, and those languages impressing onto english, representing them in text or in an imaginary patois of them is just my life
it's like... if I write a hawker character hawking in very telegraphic speech and/or pidgin... that's just... how hawkers talk... and because who tf has time to hear all your little extra words when u have things to sell, you gotta just get to the point
I spent a lot of time in grad school feeling tongue-tied because I felt like I had to find The Correct Actual Linguistic Term For It, As Agreed Upon By the Academy and ohhhh my god what a real academia española approach to language, the ivory tower is so constricting
if you get it, you get it, it might not be The Official Term but the point of conveying and translating is to get an idea across regardless of the specifics of language
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