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update! for the sake XD;

May 21, 2006 13:49

Firstly, this all-natural chapstick thing that I walked out of Ritchies with, because I went in to check for Shishi/Sana-caps, but they didn't have any, and I had to buy something is an absolute godsend. D: It doesn't make the skin of my face peelfromthemouth. :o Which is brilliant, considering I couldn't smile for a week after seeing MI:3 (damn ( Read more... )

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iniaes May 21 2006, 06:09:33 UTC

XD BUT THE SAD THING IS, AN ASIAN PERSON CAN DISTINGUISH WHICH PARTS OF ASIA ANOTHER ASIAN PERSON IS FROM.

It is mainly just white people who DON'T NOTICE AT ALL the differences in facial shapes, cheekbones, eyes, whatever. XD They lose.

Also, you could mention the amazingly varied dialects of Chinese! AMAZING. VARIED. AS IN, PEOPLE FROM DIF PARTS OF CHINA MUST KNOW THEIR DIALECT + MANDARIN OR CANTONESE IN ORDER TO COMMUNICATE. XD

fire_ban May 21 2006, 06:13:13 UTC

XDD <3

Karen. XD I wanted to use you in my study <3 Was going to research a second-generation perspective: growing up speaking a heritage language, vs. not. XD; You would be my heritage language specimen, and I would be the not. XD However, as you know. I am late with this essay already <3

I COULD! :D I think I shall. 8D <-talking about the Greeks at the moment, wtf. I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THE GREEKS. XD; Except for how they interact with other communities and through generations, in Melbourne.

iniaes May 21 2006, 06:17:26 UTC

XD If you tell me what you want to know, I CAN BABBLE AT YOU FOR LIKE, EVER ABOUT IT. But, uh. XD I am not really that honky, okay?

ALSO. XD IT'S NOT LATE IF YOU HAVE AN EXTENSION TIL MONDAY (YOU FREAK XD).

And you know plenty about Greeks. XD WRITE, JOFACE, WRITE.

fire_ban May 21 2006, 06:25:42 UTC

You really are that honky, you honk. XD <3

I'm talking about the extent to which speaking a heritage language is a vital part of maintaining ethnic identity. XD I do believe my entire paper/argument hinges on schoolyard isolation felt by kids who don't speak the Mother Tongue, and how this pushes them from their ID for LIFE, thanks to the Ripple Effect, or some other crap. XD; *pained* It makes sense, no?

YES, BUT IT WAS DUE LAST WEDNESDAY, THEREFORE. XD LATE. *has never had to ask for an extention before*

...right. XD FROM WATCHING TROY. *delves back into Word*

iniaes May 21 2006, 06:31:19 UTC

XD IT REALLY DEPENDS ON WHERE YOU ARE, YES?

But, uh, at my school there were never many asians, whereas my brother went to a school with heaps of asian kids. He and his friends speak mostly cantonese and are more embedded into the HK cultural lifestyle - the music, clothing, trends, whatever.

If you were an asian kid around other asians and you DID NOT SPEAK canto or whatever, you would feel so stupid XD;; And left out. And like, white. > > You wouldn't hang out in the same places, wouldn't know the same singers, et cetera. XD The thing about being asian is you can't really hide it. Like, everyone knows just by looking at you that you don't come from a purely english-speaking background, so there's pretty much always expectations.

OR SOMETHING :D;

fire_ban May 21 2006, 06:36:49 UTC

YOU WIN FOR SUMMING UP MY ENTIRE ARGUMENT IN A NUTSHELL. XD YAY <3

Hm. 8D That comment was 120 words. *wonders if she could drag it out to 2500...*

I SO COULD. 8D 8DD <3

fire_ban May 21 2006, 06:38:08 UTC

Btw, DO YOUR OWN HOMEWORK, YOU NUT. XD

iniaes May 21 2006, 06:45:40 UTC

I WILL CHEER YOU ON. XD DO I GET CITED, THEN? XD A MENTION IN THE REFERENCES? QUOTED?

HOMEWORK LATER, GIMME FAME AND ADULATION FIRST. XD

fire_ban May 21 2006, 06:49:04 UTC

CITED, YES. XD QUOTED <3 AND SUCH. I SHALL HAVE TO LOOK UP HOW THE HARVARD SYSTEM QUOTES PEOPLE, BUT IT SHALL BE DONE. :D :DD

... XD NOW GO <3

iniaes May 21 2006, 06:52:41 UTC

IF I KNEW YOU WERE GOING TO QUOTE ME, I WOULD'VE MADE AN EFFORT TO SOUND SMARTER XD

<- GOES TO DRINK SOUP :D

fire_ban May 21 2006, 06:54:47 UTC

COMPARED TO THE REGISTER I'M USING TO WRITE THE ESSAY IN? XD YOU SOUND PLENTY SMRT ENUF <3

...YOU UTTER HONK. XD OR IS THAT VIET? HUH? HUH?

iniaes May 21 2006, 07:21:36 UTC

XD ALSO, LEARNING YOUR CULTURAL LANGUAGE ALSO MAKES IT EASIER TO... UH... ASSIMULATE CULTURAL VALUES, OR SOMETHING.

Oh man. XD You know what I mean.

When you speak the discourse, then your understanding of values or whatever will be framed in that language. Take a look at how western and chinese films approach different issues - if you don't speak your ethnic language, I believe you sort of lose layers of meaning and understanding that your parent culture has. Like, um. XD I DON'T KNOW.

MY SOUP IS DELICIOUS, JOFACE :D YOU JUST WISH YOU HAD SOME.

fire_ban May 21 2006, 07:25:24 UTC

RIGHT. XD A LOOSE TAKE ON THE SAPIR-WHORF HYPOTHESIS, THAT THE LANGUAGE YOU SPEAK SHAPES/FRAMES/DEFINES THE WAY YOU THINK, RATHER THAN THE OTHER WAY 'ROUND. XD OR SOMETHING. And also, because translations are often far from perfect.

*cry* I do wish. XD <-missed afternoon tea for this piece of crap! I had lunch, though. :D :DD Puff-pastry pizza, go dad <3

iniaes May 21 2006, 07:30:07 UTC

XD SORTA, BUT LIKE. XD THE WAY CHINESE PEOPLE DON'T SAY "I LOVE YOU" BUT INSTEAD, "I LIKE YOU" OR "I APPRECIATE YOU" AND HOW THE WORD FOR LOVE IS OVERSHADED WITH TONES OF "WANT/NEED/YOU ARE NECCESSARY TO ME". <- ONE DOES NOT 'FALL IN LOVE', ONE 'LIKES SOMEONE A LOT'. XD

fire_ban May 21 2006, 07:31:39 UTC

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RIGHT. XD

*WAKARIMASHITA* <3

Though I wonder how I will to fit that example in. 8D HM.

iniaes May 21 2006, 07:42:38 UTC

XD THEN DON'T FIT IT IN, FOO'.

YOU ONLY GOT LIKE, 2250 MINIMUM WORDCOUNT. <- THAT IS, MINUS THE 10% LEEWAY XD

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