Dark Espeon
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Just answer the question, eh? Why do you think that is? I mean, what is wrong with "not speaking right" ?
See, I speak this dialect of Spanish, and people from the region I lived in (in Cuba, the eastern part), have always been made fun of because of the way we speak. For example, where a normal Spanish speaker would say "Español" (Spanish for Spanish), we'd say "Epañol", and where they'd say "Verdad" (Spanish for Truth), we'd say "Verdá". Yeah, we "eat" the letter S at the end of words, and the letter D as well. So we're always made fun of. Even a Mexican friend of mine thought I spoke like that because I happen to know French and well, he thought I made it up. Also an American friend of mine hates it when I speak like that -he learned standard Latin American Spanish at school- so he finds my Spanish quite ugly whereas I find it quite nice :-D. Lucky for him I can speak standard Spanish.
I've also heard of some Americans who make fun of Southern people cause of their accent/way of speaking. And the French of France do the same with the Canadian (Québecois) French -they speak different.
I fail to see what is wrong with a dialect or a way of speaking that differs from the standard. Sure, it might improper at times, but why is it considered vulgar or uneducated/uncivilized? Native Spanish speakers and other native romance languages speakers seem to forget that Spanish and all Romance languages came from a vulgar language itself -vulgar latin- and it eventually became the nice languages they are today.
English native speakers seem to make less fun of their fellow English speakers than the Spanish or the French speakers, but it still seems to me they make fun of them and their way of speaking. Maybe even more so than I think.
(Oooh, and I've also noticed that native speakers make fun of immigrant speakers who also speak the language -for example, in this essay I read, a Korean-Canadian woman was regarded as "less Korean" because she was born in Canada and "didn't speak Korean with enough accent to be a true Korean" so she was kinda looked down upon when she went to Korea). Kind off topic, but I don't feel that's right ~.~;;
And, of course, native speakers ALWAYS make fun of immigrants who are not native speakers because of their accent. (I used to hate my Spanish accent when speaking English because I had to say everything twice in order for teachers and people to understand, but now I kinda have gotten over it and my English teacher encouraged me to keep my accent when speaking English -she finds it beautiful o.o;
Anyways, I think rather than make fun of other people who speak a dialect of the same language, their ways of speaking should be appreciated, and who knows, someday that dialect could become a language. And that native speakers should not mock immigrants and non-native speakers of whatever language they speak >>.
For example, I absolutely LOVE the way that Argetinian people speak Spanish. It almost sounds Italian-ish :ksmile:. And people from Andalusia (souther region of Spain) speak a lovely Spanish IMO. And English people sound cute too when they speak Spanish. Mainly cause (I think/In my opinion) they usually don't put the accent on the right place of the word or just say some letters in funny/cute ways ^o^. Besides, they just sound different =P. Which is cool.
However, by no means should that encourage people to spell like crap. Speaking and writing are different things. In my opinion, speak how you want, but when you grab a pen and paper, try your best to write standard and spell correctly. Because everyone can understand the standard form of a language. And typing like "U r stupid" isn't cute at all. In fact, it is disrespectful to the language, and it can get confused to the reader/person you're writing to/chatting with.
See, I speak this dialect of Spanish, and people from the region I lived in (in Cuba, the eastern part), have always been made fun of because of the way we speak. For example, where a normal Spanish speaker would say "Español" (Spanish for Spanish), we'd say "Epañol", and where they'd say "Verdad" (Spanish for Truth), we'd say "Verdá". Yeah, we "eat" the letter S at the end of words, and the letter D as well. So we're always made fun of. Even a Mexican friend of mine thought I spoke like that because I happen to know French and well, he thought I made it up. Also an American friend of mine hates it when I speak like that -he learned standard Latin American Spanish at school- so he finds my Spanish quite ugly whereas I find it quite nice :-D. Lucky for him I can speak standard Spanish.
I've also heard of some Americans who make fun of Southern people cause of their accent/way of speaking. And the French of France do the same with the Canadian (Québecois) French -they speak different.
I fail to see what is wrong with a dialect or a way of speaking that differs from the standard. Sure, it might improper at times, but why is it considered vulgar or uneducated/uncivilized? Native Spanish speakers and other native romance languages speakers seem to forget that Spanish and all Romance languages came from a vulgar language itself -vulgar latin- and it eventually became the nice languages they are today.
English native speakers seem to make less fun of their fellow English speakers than the Spanish or the French speakers, but it still seems to me they make fun of them and their way of speaking. Maybe even more so than I think.
(Oooh, and I've also noticed that native speakers make fun of immigrant speakers who also speak the language -for example, in this essay I read, a Korean-Canadian woman was regarded as "less Korean" because she was born in Canada and "didn't speak Korean with enough accent to be a true Korean" so she was kinda looked down upon when she went to Korea). Kind off topic, but I don't feel that's right ~.~;;
And, of course, native speakers ALWAYS make fun of immigrants who are not native speakers because of their accent. (I used to hate my Spanish accent when speaking English because I had to say everything twice in order for teachers and people to understand, but now I kinda have gotten over it and my English teacher encouraged me to keep my accent when speaking English -she finds it beautiful o.o;
Anyways, I think rather than make fun of other people who speak a dialect of the same language, their ways of speaking should be appreciated, and who knows, someday that dialect could become a language. And that native speakers should not mock immigrants and non-native speakers of whatever language they speak >>.
For example, I absolutely LOVE the way that Argetinian people speak Spanish. It almost sounds Italian-ish :ksmile:. And people from Andalusia (souther region of Spain) speak a lovely Spanish IMO. And English people sound cute too when they speak Spanish. Mainly cause (I think/In my opinion) they usually don't put the accent on the right place of the word or just say some letters in funny/cute ways ^o^. Besides, they just sound different =P. Which is cool.
However, by no means should that encourage people to spell like crap. Speaking and writing are different things. In my opinion, speak how you want, but when you grab a pen and paper, try your best to write standard and spell correctly. Because everyone can understand the standard form of a language. And typing like "U r stupid" isn't cute at all. In fact, it is disrespectful to the language, and it can get confused to the reader/person you're writing to/chatting with.
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