Holiday Apology to Telecharge, et al.

Munibeast

Even as a half German I find it hilarious

Will

@RulesOfBlazon said:
Way to cowboy up, @skiphunt!

X 100.

Hard to recognize when you've done something "wrong" (airquotes), especially when born of a place of well wishing. Way harder to own it and way way harder to own it publicly. Much respect, Skiphunt.

As a matter of context, I find the scene to be offensive as well. It's not the scene itself so much (accents are and will always be funny), it's that 9 out of 10 times Asian Americans are depicted in film, it's in this sort of caricature form.

Context was really only to emphasize the point: lefty that I am, much respect for this post Mr Hunt.

Happy all the things to all.

skiphunt

@syrupcore said:

@RulesOfBlazon said:
Way to cowboy up, @skiphunt!

X 100.

Hard to recognize when you've done something "wrong" (airquotes), especially when born of a place of well wishing. Way harder to own it and way way harder to own it publicly. Much respect, Skiphunt.

As a matter of context, I find the scene to be offensive as well. It's not the scene itself so much (accents are and will always be funny), it's that 9 out of 10 times Asian Americans are depicted in film, it's in this sort of caricature form.

Context was really only to emphasize the point: lefty that I am, much respect for this post Mr Hunt.

Happy all the things to all.

Thank you for this. I've tormented myself and lost sleep over this whole thing. I was horrified that my well wishes hurt anyone. So, I'm relieved at least one person who was offended feels my efforts to make it right have been sufficient.

Happy things to you too

u0421793

Or there's this:

Benny Hill Chinaman by jwj

u0421793

Incidentally, when I was learning Mandarin (now forgotten, almost totally) it was interesting to learn about the way the number ten is pronounced (十 or shí), almost none of us could get the subtle difference, it isn't just shi as if sh followed by the letter i, there's a kind of rolling back of the top of the tongue that isn't like anything in English, and of course, is all going on in the mouth, so is almost impossible to figure out what's going on in there.

MrNezumi

@u0421793 said:
Incidentally, when I was learning Mandarin (now forgotten, almost totally) it was interesting to learn about the way the number ten is pronounced (十 or shí), almost none of us could get the subtle difference, it isn't just shi as if sh followed by the letter i, there's a kind of rolling back of the top of the tongue that isn't like anything in English, and of course, is all going on in the mouth, so is almost impossible to figure out what's going on in there.

Subtle difference? In Pinyin the letter 'i' is the long 'e' (as in bee) unless it comes after 'ch', 'sh' or 'zh' in which case it is prounced 'er' (with the weird mouth thing you noted). Perhaps you meant the difference between 'she' and "shi"?