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Re: Blog Thread IIIb : Look Who's Blogging Now
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--- Quote from: valley_parade on 26 Oct 2012, 00:21 ---Oh sup blawg thredd. I've got a date this weekend.
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WOO! Let us know how it goes!
Patrick:
--- Quote from: Linds on 25 Oct 2012, 14:47 ---But honestly I see more of a problem with the language than I do casting. Using bad Chinese to swear is racist. 1) They should have gotten the language right and 2) it shouldn't have been just to swear, it should have been incorporated more fully (which is understandable, English and Chinese [Mandarin?] are the two most widely used languages) or not at all. Sci-fi often involves the blending of languages, they could have done so much better with that.
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I can't actually think of anybody I know here in California who fluently speaks a language other than English (I can think of two exceptions: Hispanic folks and me, and I've already lost German and am rapidly losing Albanian)
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I know several people who are fluent in Mandarin and half of them are white and I have known a few people who were fluent in Spanish. But there's an entire world out there and plenty of people who speak a language that isn't English. And honestly I think outside of the United States, people are more prone to learn a second language because either they live in close proximity to other countries (think Europe) or learn multiple versions of languages native to their country (like the various types of Chinese).
I mean, we've talked about the language thing in other threads. Most Americans expect people who live in our country to know English, while we make television shows that are trying to blend cultures and don't bother to respect the other cultures while they're doing it. It's lazy. I actually quite enjoy Firefly because of the story and the relationships within the main cast, various aspects of the show still bother me.
Edit: Also if they wanted to just get away with swearing on TV, they could have done something like BSG and just made a word up. Frak is made up, but we know what it means when used in context!
Sorry for this giant block of not-blog text!
Barmymoo:
I think also if popular TV shows had characters who used several languages without a cliche reason ("oh of course she speaks Spanish, her mother was Mexican" or whatever), just because they knew other languages, people might be more inclined to learn them. Look at how many people learn Japanese because they like Anime, or how many kids learn Spanish from Dora the Explorer.
Blog thread, I have had dinner with people from the choir four times this week and it has been fun! And my tutees are going away for half term next week so I get the week off from tutoring! I don't get any money, but I do get two evenings to myself.
jwhouk:
Today is going to be Angry Productivity day around the world.
Why?
Because TUMBLR IS DOWN.
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