#code switching

[communist-hatsunemiku]

tentenchan2525

[polyglot-sock]

code switching is great because one moment everyone can understand you and the next la frase gets totalmente incompréhensible for tout le mundo except ton cerebro y on ne peut hacer anything about ça

[doinkdoinkdonk]

via jeffrey_keller on instagram

[twopoppies]

https://www.tumblr.com/twopoppies/771848190054088704/hi-gina-i-just-had-a-thought-pop-into-my-head

From aotv after being a guest on James show:

“I still don’t necessarily buy into it as a reality, as such. Cause, you know, with all the… just the reality of a celebrity anyway, and how excited it makes all those people. In reality, I’d like to sit down with them and go “think about it. What is it you’re getting so excited about?”. I’d live in my fucking bubble of normality and that’s anytime I’m not at work. I live in my own head, where I’m fucking… you know what I mean? I live a normal life. And there’s moments like them where I come into that kind of situation and it takes me a second to adjust from that world that I’ve just been in, that I’m super comfortable in and where I’m completely meself. And then there is more that is expected of me in that situation, which I feel. So, it’s an interesting contrast”.

Thanks, love. I don't think this is about code-switching (although I'm sure that's a part of it), but yes, I think he's very good at keeping himself grounded and aware that he's an ordinary person with an extraordinary job. And I'd imagine he's a big part of what keeps Harry that way, too.

[magnesiumshinesbrightly]

I just realized the reason I obsessed over the character Bumblebee (transformers) as a kid was because he talked the way I do. I learned how to talk and interact based off of media characters and so my speech is constantly switching accents and tone like his radio speech💀

[sweaterkittensahoy]

"I'm sorry" and "my apologies" can both be sincere. But if I say "my apologies" in a work-related context, I am not being sincere. I'm just covering my ass so I can't be accused of rudeness.

[aslansjedi]

New work posted on Ao3, and it's the first thing I've ever written that's specifically about Kanan and Hera, so I'm super excited! (It's also the first link I've tried to put in a tumblr post, so I hope it works...) Further details and summary of the story are below the cut.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: Rebels, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Kanan Jarrus/Hera Syndulla, Depa Billaba & Kanan Jarrus Characters: Kanan Jarrus, Hera Syndulla Additional Tags: Mentioned Depa Billaba, Secrets, Vulnerability, Memories, Accents, Hera's accent has always been a fascination of mine, Ghost Crew Are Family (Star Wars), kanan and hera are accidentally married, Post-Star Wars: A New Dawn Summary:

Hera and Kanan have become a team since they met on Gorse. However, as that teamwork blurs into a more complex relationship that is closer to family than co-workers, they must both learn how to trust one another with the secrets they've been hiding since they were children.

[keeksybee]

Snape’s Accent:

One thing I’ve always taken issue with in HP is the fact there’s never bc a moment where Snape’s real accent gets its moment to shine. What I mean by that is the town he lives in Cokesworth in the books is fictional, but the midlands in England are in fact very real, and it’s stated just from the look of Spinners End alone that Snape grew up on a housing estate, the closest equivalent I can think of to describe what it is being the projects, long story short it’s pretty obvious he didn’t have a lot of cash growing up. From the context clues I’ve always gotten the implication that he’s likely meant to be from Birmingham, think Peaky Blinders with a little less vocal clarity, the cast of PB speak intentionally quite slowly and fairly clearly to be understood by an international audience, real ‘Brummies’ however, as some would put it don’t tend to talk like that because ya know…they’re not acting.

Snape’s background leads me to the conclusion that when he entered Hogwarts he likely had a very strong Brummie accent which never made an appearance in the movies or books at any point which I find incredibly disappointing, I imagine in the context of the world it would have become a code switching thing for him, being in Slytherin with the very upper class blood purists who look down on anything Muggle to begin with and being poor on top of that probably didn’t help, I also imagine James Potter also would have mocked it in the early days before Snape adjusted his accent to something more neutral.

In spite of all of that I still really want a scene or a fic or anything where he gets drunk/ is delirious from injury or illness ect and the how he actually talks just starts slipping out, getting progressively thicker the less aware he is of his faculties. It could be a bonding moment between him and Harry, a straight up comedy, or an emotional roller coaster I just want it to commence.

[thehappyvet]

I've finally realised the hardest part about friends asking for vet advice is that I'm out of work mode.

Work me is calm, empathetic, patient, understanding, and professional.

Out of work me is a trash goblin.

I have to switch between trash goblin and professional and then back again and it takes up so much mental energy.

[enbycrip]

One of the great joys of being Scottish is the fact that you generally primarily pronounce things in reasonably “standard English” with a Scottish accent, but can switch into Scots for emphasis any time you want to.

“He cannae sue me cus he’s deid” has a completely different emphasis from “he can’t sue me because he’s dead”, and I enjoy having that tool in my linguistic toolbox.

[earhartsease]

hmm we've suddenly become selfconscious about the fact that, having grown up in london, and then lived with people from both essex and glasgow, we as a matter of course swear here on tumblr quite a lot more than other people, and it maybe sounds angrier to y'all than it does to us?

so this is just to say, a lot of the time we use fucking as an emphatic, except when it really is to express frustration or anger - and we hope it mostly doesn't read as rage when it isn't? to us it's usually just a normal part of conversation and funny rather than snarly

[pitaenigma]

A quality of Marco Inaros's that I wish they'd kept for the show is how, when he does interstellar transmissions, he puts on an Earther accent in the books. He doesn't do that in the show, sticking with a Belter accent throughout. Other Belters do code switch - Miller shows he can do it when he needs to be friendly to a Belter but conspicuously refuses to do so most of the time, as part of how he aligns with Earthers, Naomi does so very often. There are also Belters who don't - Prax, being well educated and working with Inners, has a fairly standard American accent, and Drummer speaks English haltingly and with a thick Belter accent because her English is much worse than Lang Belta - but I feel like having Marco be someone who does would have made him a bit more interesting.

That said, maybe it's just that if Keon Alexander drew any more attention I'd probably still be single and the showrunners were doing me a favor

[jamerasjournal]

Black people speak two languages. Job interview and AAVE. Question: When I fill out a job application can I still check the box that says bilingual. Does my ability to code switch depending on the setting that I’m in count as a job skill? I am always subconsciously turning down my blackness in an effort to make other people more comfortable. Beyoncé once said, “Got all this money but you’ll never take the country out me.” I felt that. I started kindergarten already knowing how to read and write. And no matter how many times my mama made me practice Hooked on Phonics, my first language will always be Ebonics. Spell Mississippi. M-I crooked letter, crooked letter- I- crooked letter, crooked letter- I- humpback, humpback- I. Okay, but spell it for real this time. M-I crooked letter, crooked letter- I- crooked letter, crooked letter- I- humpback, humpback- I. Did I stutter? I bet my great-great-great-granddaddy had an accent so thick that one sentence sounded like one word. And what’s in that word? Levels upon levels of trauma that you couldn’t even begin to fathom. It’s a slave spiritual sung over plantation fields, the last two letters spun into the cotton in your t-shirt. An apostrophe added cuz If you say one more syllable, you just might get whipped, boy. It’s living in a world where you can’t read the words. Mispronouncing words you don’t even know how to spell. While the rest of the world looks at you like you ain’t got no sense. But tonight, I’m gon’ talk how I wanna talk, cuz that slang is in my bones. And if you don’t like it you can get up out my face. Period. And I don’t wanna hear a nan ‘notha word about me talking “ghetto” when I stand before you with a last name my ancestors wouldn’t even begin to know how to say. And every time I sign my name I’m paying homage to the white family that used to own mine. Our language is one of the only things that can never be taken from me. It’s embedded into generations from long before my time. It’s okay that you don’t understand it, I’m not allowed to speak it to you anyway. Lest you call me uneducated, illiterate, or unprofessional. I must censor myself, brush it under the tongue. That is until you make me angry. Then everybody and they momma gon’ know you got the wrong one. Try me if you want to. I was raised on, “Do I look like Boo Boo the fool?” and “Stop crying ‘fore I give you something to cry about.” And that’s word to my momma. What’s in a word? I see your eyes widen when the African American Vernacular comes bursting out. So foreign to you it sound like a Voodoo spell. Yeah, this how I really be wanting to talk. Fix ya face. I cannot be Afrocentric and Eurocentric at the same time. I do not have the Freedom of Speech if the way I speak determines my intellectual capabilities. I must always accommodate a society that refuses to accommodate me. But you knows what? I’ve gotten real good at talking “white.” But every once in a while, if you listen- I mean real, real good. You can still hear that one crooked letter. The black cracking through like a toothless grin. Yeah. That’s my great granddaddy saying, “Say it with your chest girl.” So if you hear me talking loud it’s cuz I’m finna say something real important. And when I speak, you better listen.

-jamera naquai, CROOKED LETTER

[arisveah]

switching languages is so jarring every time, even when its different versions of your countries common languages. signing with a girl and then BAM now we're speaking and i dont even know who you are anymore, hell, i dont really know who I am now