#code-switching

[handypolymath]

Seriously, one of the biggest challenges in getting older is coming to terms with the expiration of your own expertise.

Clock the change in the first place. Evaluate the new information fairly. Parse the new info wrt your values and past experiences AND LET YOURSELF BE CHALLENGED TO CHANGE both How You Think of the Past, as well as What You Do Going Forward.

Be open to being wrong. Be willing to build new frameworks for yourself.

[thenewdemocratus]

Adam Carolla: Is Jasmine Crockett Playing a Character?

“Adam and Dr. Drew break down Rep. Jasmine Crockett’s blatant code-switching and explore why so many politicians shift their tone depending on the audience.” Source:Adam Carolla with a look at U.S. Representative Jasmine Crockett (The Squad, Texas) From Adam Carolla I think I agree with Adam Carolla’s basic point here. (Which makes me want to consult a real shrink, instead of Drew Pinsky) Whether…

[samw3000]

Sequence

I’m not sure if this technically counts as a concrete poem—but conceptually, our DNA is like concrete. You can imprint all you want while it’s still wet, still forming. But once it sets, the shape holds—sometimes for generations. And yes, sometimes, you have to break it to start over.And that’s okay. © 2025 Samantha Williams. All Rights Reserved. Meet the bar with concrete and shape poetry Thank…

[manylayersingender]

For my 11th gender portfolio post, I want to talk about code-switching. It includes "adjusting one's style of speech, appearance, behavior, and expression in ways that will optimize the comfort of others in exchange for fair treatment, quality service, and employment opportunities" (McCluney et al., 2019). I was not aware of it until I learned about it in the gender and communication class this semester. However, during the class, I began thinking about my own experience with code-switching.

When I am in the U.S., I try to be more explicit and tend to express my opinions straightforwardly, even if that opinion involves possibly criticizing something, because I have come to believe that this is the way many Americans speak. I also talk that way in English because I was underestimated multiple times due to my looks. I do not even look Asian-American, and it makes sense because I am completely Asian. So, some people I met in the U.S. thought I could not really speak English, and I could not express my opinions and emotions due to the lack of English vocabulary. So, whenever I talk to someone, I tend to be more explicit. (I naturally tend to speak straightforwardly, so this way of talking also suits me well)

On the other hand, when I am in Japan, I have to be way less explicit and have to use more euphemistic language because Japan has a social norm that it is better to express opinions indirectly, especially if it's about criticizing something or someone. Because I am naturally direct when I speak, there was a time when I expressed my opinions to others straightforwardly, and some people did not like the way I communicated. Since then, I have decided to code-switch depending on the country I am in.

I really feel like it is necessary for me to code-switch to fit in and to get fair and better treatment. It can be really exhausting, especially when I'm in Japan, because I have to choose words carefully and suppress my individuality. If I speak explicitly, people around me will think I show my individuality too much and give them the impression that I do not work well in a team.

[untypicable]

The Subtle Art of Sounding Clever (Or Not)

Why do some people sound smart whilst others sound like they’re in a pub fight? Language is one of the great social equalizers, except when it isn’t. We all technically speak the same language, but how we speak it can determine whether we’re perceived as intelligent, competent, or just another person shouting about football at the pub. Enter Basil Bernstein, the British sociologist who dared to…

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

historical drama/sitcom where two gay best friends (woman and man) get lavender married--and proceed to spend the Fancy European Honeymoon their parents paid for acting as each other's wingman

[lazzerot]

I relate to your enjoyment of seeing code-switching represented on a TV show so I decided I do want to reblog this since I like the overall message of your post. Originally I did just wanna let it slide, but I can't reblog this in good conscience without commenting on one of your tags:

I don't think The Expanse as a whole is that much about settler-colonialism as it is about exploitative colonialism and in turn about imperialism in general. Granted, I haven't finished reading Babylon's Ashes yet as I'm writing this post, so maybe the Laconia plot is very settler-colonialist and I'm talking out of my ass here. If that's the case I apologize. But if it's not I just want to say this: In the Expanse canon Ganymede, Io or Ceres weren't settled by any living organism known to humans before humans gained the technology necessary to expand from earth out into the SOL system and colonized it. It's just plain "old" colonialism, which is impossible to have back on earth since every imperial expanding superpower in history colonized parts of earth that were already settled by other people. I get that from an US-American perspective "settler colonialism" is a big buzz word, but not every piece of literature is meant to be read as a metaphor for the US. In a way The Expanse's main message is one of anti-imperialism.

One of the things that i really really love about the expanse is the attention it pays to the language the characters speak. Obviously for practicality reasons the belters have to speak mostly english but the little bits of belter creole we get here and there are so distinct and feel so lived in, and i love that the show just. Refuses to translate them. You just kind of pick up the dialect over time.

I also really love the care that was put into the characters accents. Like i dont know if ive ever watched a show where a character audibly code switches like Naomi Nagata does. When we meet her she's speaking pretty standard English but when she's back with other belters her accent comes on pretty strong. Which is so cool! I feel like the only time we see characters with more than one accent is when one of them is fake because theyre like. In disguise or pretending to be someone else. Its really cool to see a character who just talks differently in different situations and it makes the whole world feel so grounded and real even tho obviously theyre like. In space.

[psecho]

What's a little code-switching among friends?

[appleshy-king]

with few exceptions i don't ship any of the m6 with any of the princesses but I wanted to challenge myself and do exactly that; I combined a bodyguard au and an arranged marriage au and came up with this! - an au where bearing an element of harmony comes with a union to one of the princesses, and serves functionally as both a spouse and/or adviser, and a bodyguard.

been calling this either the harmony marriage au, or the elements of marriage lol

Rainbow immediately addresses the elephant in the room and all but volunteers to form a union with Luna; something she does partly to prove she isn't afraid of anyone or anything, but also because… look man she said she was sorry and she's gonna start her new rule with everyone against her - someone has to be there for her. Celestia especially approves of this union, as, even if these marriages are largely political, the element of Loyalty would make a true companion for a pony like Luna. Despite that, I think their start would be difficult, given all the ways the two are opposites… but ultimately flying by moonlight is just as nice as flying during the day, and the long stretches of peaceful nights give them plenty of time to get to know each other.

Cadance solves the unbalanced issue and forms a union with both Pinkie and Fluttershy. There's no limit to virtues that are compatible with Love, but Laughter and Kindness just have that little something extra that catches her attention, nevermind how stinkin cute they are. All three take to their new marriage well. It’s especially helpful that Pinkie and Fluttershy have a pre-established friendship that could easily remain platonic, or turn romantic or queer-platonic; there’s also the fact that Cadance herself was once a humble pegasus raised by earth ponies before being thrust into this royal life, which could be why they caught her eye in the first place. 

(Shining is still here, as someone needs to train these girls in the art of guarding, and their relationship is still active (although PinkieShy would not be considered his wives); bc if there’s one thing I’m going to do with the princess of love, it's show off some poly pride!)

Twilight would, at this point, ““have her choice”” between Generous Rarity or Honest Applejack; either would be fitting for her new title as the princess of Friendship, and both are good ponies who she could rely on. However, given just how much Twilight’s life is about to be upended with new, well, everything - ultimately Rarity turns out to be her best match. She’s generous with her patience and tact in a way AJ isn’t quite, and more importantly she understands the ins and outs of the high class, making her a real asset in Twilight’s transition to royalty. Nevermind that the two were maybe already a little smitten before their union even took place…

This leaves Applejack sort of “auto-paired” with Celestia. At first Applejack seems like a horrible choice for a princess who is practically a queen, given how very little she knows about this life, and the way the upper class look down on her, but it ends up that her more open/harsh honesty that would have maybe been too much for Twilight in her new role is actually perfect against Celestia. It takes Applejack a bit to learn how to hold her tongue in royal public but she learns to play the game in her own way, and her willingness to speak openly and bluntly with Celestia - in private - is so refreshing to Celestia, who hasn't had a pony tell her like it is in ages. That said, i think this learning curve takes quite some time to even itself out, and in the beginning they spend a lot of their marriage clashing with each other, though ultimately i see Applejack as a respectful enough horse that her southern charm does just that, charming the princess in a way she couldn’t expect.

The six are still all friends with each other, although given the sister pairs some of them see each other more often; Twilight, Rarity, Pinkie, and Fluttershy are a bit closer in that sense, while Applejack and Rainbow consider each other best friends. I’d be willing to say maybe something is going on between them, if i didn’t think that went against what the element of loyalty stands for, but there’s definitely rumors…

[timedyne]

yuzu and citra are dead because the yuzu/citra devs shot themselves in the foot. they continually POSTED footage and updates pertaining to games THAT WEREN'T OUT YET, which gave nintendo actual foothold to take them down for encouraging piracy. this is recorded directly in the legal documents for the case. they also (apparently, this is according to my friend who is more active in the emulation scene than i and i don't know of any recorded proof so take it with a grain of salt) straight up shared links to piracy sites in their discord which is an obvious no-no for any emulator???? and people straight up going on nintendo's OFFICIAL SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS saying "fuck you i'm just going to emulate [insert game here] using yuzu" which is. well. loose lips sink ships.

fuck nintendo and all that, but this is almost entirely on the backs of the devs for being stupid. to any aspiring emulator devs out there: don't post about anything relating to piracy ever, especially don't post about the games THAT YOU AREN'T SUPPOSED TO HAVE ACCESS TO YET, and wait a while before saying a brand new game is playable on your emulator.

also: they settled out of court. no judge saw the case. this isn't setting any sort of legal precedent. all of your other favorite emulators are fine for now as long as they don't make the same stupid mistakes yuzu was making.

[businesstiramisu]

#reblogging bc i'm at most 50% sure i understand what's happening here and i want to see if someone's gonna explain in the notes atsome point

English has a lot of words of Romance Origin (from Latin, French, etc.) and a lot of words of Germanic origin (from Old English, German, etc.). See this chart on wikipedia for a sense of it. This is very standard-- all languages that I"m aware of have strata of influence from other languages. But English-focused etymology nerds do tend to make a big deal out of the Germanic vs. the Latin/French/Greek -- in particular, the "Germanic" substrate from old English vs. the "Latinate" (well, French and Latin) from when the Normans (William the Conqueror) arrived and turned Old English into Middle English.* Like, as a kid I was taught that we tend to have a Germanic word for the animal when it's on the farm (e.g. cow, pig, chicken) and a French word for the animal once it's in the kitchen (beef, pork, poultry). Actually when OP says "Latinate" they might be thinking of words like "octogenarian" or "bifocal" that are transparently from Latin and invented much later.

*The picture is a lot more complicated than that; loanwords from French, German, and many other languages are continually borrowed into English for as long as those languages are in contact. E.g. garmbreak's joke with "staff" -- it *is* of Germanic origin, but in the sense meaning "worker" it was probably loaned into English from German in the 18th century, through the military "staff officer" sense. This is newer than the near-synonym servant which arrived in Middle English from Old French. But you also get words like paradise -- of Latin origin via Old French, but showed up in Old English before the Normans showed up in England.

Anyways, it's not really two separate dialects, no one only uses words of one or the other, although people have written some fun stories exploring what that could look like. (it's also not a binary.) But it is true that you can often come across as more learned, fancy, or pretentious by using longer, complicated words of Latin (or Greek) origin. It's basically a type of code-switching.

Example:

"Do you want to go to the shop to buy treats?" vs. "Would you fancy a visit the market to purchase confections?"

(orange is Germanic, blue is Latinate -- and in this case, all arriving in Middle English or Later)

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EDIT: on the "it's rude" part -- my guess at the point is that it's rude to deliberately use obscurantist sequipedalian vocabulary that you don't expect your audience to be familiar with. And I agree, but you can also totally do this with Germanic words by bringing up Gesamkunstwerk or like half of Philosophy vocab.

it's a little bit rude to speak in the latinate dialect of English in a group containing folks who speak only the germanic dialect of English

[yakkety-yak-art]

Thinking abt how Remmick weaponizes his ability to code-switch from White Southern Man to Subjugated Irishman and knowing which one will serve his current manipulations best. Basically every time his Irish accent crops up it feels so deliberate. He’s so interesting because he’s just plain evil and trying to hide it behind the veil of his people’s history, as if it entitles him to cannibalize whatever he wants.

[andatsea]

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[untypicable]

The Subtle Art of Sounding Clever (Or Not)

Why do some people sound smart whilst others sound like they’re in a pub fight? Language is one of the great social equalizers, except when it isn’t. We all technically speak the same language, but how we speak it can determine whether we’re perceived as intelligent, competent, or just another person shouting about football at the pub. Enter Basil Bernstein, the British sociologist who dared to…

[wolfziedraws]

Been thinking a lot about Tobias' identity struggles as a parallel to being mixed/biracial and had to do some sketches about it