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In a move likely to anger Channa Profile picture
In a move likely to anger Channa
@laorenchanna
Opinionated blogging on Taiwan *without* Chinese characteristics.
Apr 13, 2020 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
What I love about the pan-Asian solidarity of the #nnevvy meme: it posits the existence of an updated lens for English use in Asia, even where English is a colonial legacy. It moves away from linguistic imperialism and towards subaltern linguistics: appropriation and empowerment. #Taiwan #Thailand #HongKong #Vietnam #Philippines #India #Malaysia etc teamed up with #nnevvy English to take on #China trolls. That it was English isn’t neutral and wasn’t pre-ordained but the source of linguistic imperialism in Asia is increasingly Mandarin, not English.