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7/27 - “Hopefully Henry Wyatt won’t be so stupid and so uncultured”
By The Stabbing Pen | July 27, 2008
I don’t mean to talk too much smack about white people. I mean, I’ve already done that before, and white people are typically such an easy target. It’s just that I don’t like kids named “Henry Wyatt,” and mothers who say both names every time this 4 year old in designer khakis walks by them. These are the same moms that pronounce the Spanish word ”casa,” with the first syllable like the in the word “at.”
I think it’s true that many Europeans speak multiple languages. Yet in America, most of us do not. Even worse, we often ignorantly misprounouce so many “crossover words.” Words that people of other native tongues adopt for one reason or another. HEY WHITE LADY, LEARN HOW TO PROUNOUCE “CASA.”
I’m not saying we should learn 10 languages, but if you’re going to adopt words that are alien to you, at least fucking learn how to pronounce them semi-correctly — especially if they are simple enough to learn.
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