Code-Switching: Is it acceptable? Is it pretentious? Do you code-switch?
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DevilishAnthony
Mother Fucker
Hell yes I switch codes! I don't want any man to think I want them to eat my ass whole in a super market, so I pretend to be all hard with my blind cane held out in front of me! hahahaha!
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Mother Fucker
I love all people but some times you got to be a blind crip to survive out here on these streets!
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DevilishAnthony
I don't blame you, Mother Fucker! The supermarket is much too public for that sort of thing! I mean, have some class.
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Mother Fucker
Dudes be looking at me like they want to eat me alive hahahaha! I'm like you aint about that life my guy!
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Doug Lee
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Lemuria
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Mother Fucker
They also be with their wife and three kids under the age of ten. SMH!
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Annie1995
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DevilishAnthony
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Mother Fucker
You can code switch with your body language folks. You be amazed on how many men are on the down low gay! I love my LGBT people, but having vision people do it to our community so much. Its just that those who have little to no vision can never see that. For example, the look of pity for blind people vs a look of kindness for those who have autism!
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Lemuria
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Mother Fucker
That is not code switching. Code switch is when a person changes in their environment to adapt such as not speaking Spanish at school vs speaking it at home.
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DevilishAnthony
I wouldn't tell the same jokes in church that I would readily tell in a bar… well, at least, most of the time.
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King Tripple Whopper
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Lemuria
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Lucera
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Doug Lee
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Lucera
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Lucera
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Lucera
lol, so I wonder if diction also counts as code-switching? I said I met my friend back in "Elementary" but over here we'd actually say primary school 😂😂😂
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King Tripple Whopper
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Lucera
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King Tripple Whopper
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Warren
Let's hear a little sample of your Caribbean speech
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Warren
I don't think it's pretentious or anything I think it's just natural. Especially over here necessary sometimes because some people are just close-minded to understand certain things LOL
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Artemis
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Lucera
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Artemis
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Lucera
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Artemis
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Artemis
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King Tripple Whopper
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Lucera
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BostonBeanStalk
Hi Lucera. Yes, I practice code-switching on a regular basis. I’m originally from the Northeast part of the United States, and I’m currently living in the southeastern part of the country. I live in a city and in a very culturally diverse area. There are many people who wouldn’t understand me if I spoke with my natural Northern accent. It’s funny because when my husband and I go out to the country, he has to do a lot of translating between me and my in-laws, lol. I’ve really tried to lose the accent, but sometimes they still can’t understand me, and I have a difficult time understanding them at times. Some of them have a very heavy Southern drawl.
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LordLundin
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john2007
As a teenager who knows more than one language, yes, I do. Turkish is my native, My english is around B1+ to B2 which can be counted as intermediate, and my spanish is A1, which can be counted as beginner. When I’m speaking to a person who knows at least two of these languages, I’m switching between the languages, or using a word from a language while talking in another. For example; I generally say Mama instead of mom. And you can hear me saying Mi mama went to casa. And, one day I was talking with a friend of mine who is a turkish teenager and she asked me about the weather in my city. Normally, I was about to say Bugün hava yağmurluydu, which is the turkish version of Today, the weather was rainy. But, I said: Bugün hava was rainy instead when I spoke. And, as a teenager without any speech disabilities, I’m switching between my own voice and TTS voices as an AAC, Augmentative and alternative communication. There’s a strong contrast where I use my own voice more and where I use 1 of the 3 TTS voices I use more. When I’m upset, mad and frustrated at the same time, this generally happens about being blind and not being able to access something while the other people can access it by the way, I’m generally using AAC to response with short sentences such as no, yes, I don’t, I do, Maybe, bye bye etc. Using one of the 3 voices instead of my voice is clearly easier for me in these times because I’m feeling overwhelmed and broken about many things at the same time and this is making me harder to think what to say while speaking at the same time. But, when I’m with people I genuinely trust with, even when I’m too overwhelmed, I’m using my own voice more. I think this can be counted as a code switching, at least an adaptation, too.
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Trey culver
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Capitan Slap A Hoe
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Lucera
Lord London and Capitan, you both had me cracking up at various points throughout your responses. Capitan, when you were reflecting on people over here who try too hard to sound "yankee" as it were, I was reminded of those viral skits on Instagram with the Trini dude who was trying to prove he was a legitimate American citizen, so the officials decided to test his claims by giving him spicy food to eat. Inevitably, his accent started to bleed through once the spicy flavours hit his tongue 😂😂😂. Anyway I appreciate all the perspectives shared. Great convo!
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Capitan Slap A Hoe
https://youtube.com/shorts/iZWBUIIpKfU?is=5204b4uXjnXR8bFi
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Lucera
😂😂😂 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClAMAJCSWxA
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Artemis
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Artemis
https://youtu.be/go6qDjwO69M?si=8xYP6KYl7HMCFqxH
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Lucera
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