its an exonym from portuguese jesuits lol
Still waiting for any evidence to the contrary other than your classmate being a weirdo
That doesnt make it imperialist. If we had THEM saying something else due to our influence, that would be imperialist
are you chinese
heaven help us
I don’t know man. whatever “mandarin” translated is in chinese isn’t in use, from what i’ve been told from mainland chinese people. Maybe it is some sort of revisionist doublethink PRC thing, calling a standardized language a “vernacular” but I will insist on using putonghua if i have to write on it again even if I might use mandarin around americans
Yes putonghua was the communist name and guoyu the nationalist one. it doesnt matter because we are speaking English. you just dont get it.
your argument calls for us to never say ‘japanese’ ‘spanish’
it is absurd, because it is not how language works. not even politically or socially
also I get a kick out of people being all offended by whatever mainland hcinese people say
those cultures aren’t insisting on dropping those exonyms though
And if they did, it would be absurd.
because there’s no problem with the west doing that stuff to the west.
calling it “mandarin” isnt the west “doing stuff” to china. this is just so dumb
huber and a2pas having the equivalent of the “you can’t be racist against white people because racism doesnt mean racism anymore” conversation that me and ewiz had
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I’m not here to say whether or not it’s dumb. I’m just going off of the take of friends and peers that I respect the opinion of
have you been denied a bank loan for being white or being trash
Send them to me so I can explain to them how language and politics works
I mean part of being white trash means having shitty credit so yeah I probably would be denied a bank loan if I was white trash
my man youre babytrapping the East boy your SEED is imperialist my man
good thing my credit is above 700
actually let me correct myself youre making japan a little bit more ainu with whatever you do there