"It's all written in Japlish or something. I don't know."
One of my professors let this line slip as he was talking about errors in technical writing. I felt like this line revealed a lot about the man who said it. When most people refer to text with errors common to the Asian population, they use the term "Engrish." While it is no less offensive in nature, it feels less offensive because "everyone else says it." The term "Japlish" caught me completely by surprise and I had to struggle not to laugh out loud. Just from this quote, I'm sure you can gather that it was an older white male who had served in a war. I wonder if I could take the same line and have readers infer different things from it.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment