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  • @mvirts@lemmy.world
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    172 years ago

    One of my local Thai restaurants has “wine by the grass” written out on the menu.

    I hope most people aren’t hurt when language errors seem funny, my Japanese is not even conversational much less good enough to work in food service or notice if I said something funny. Care must be taken to separate a comical difference in the way we say things from prejudice and thinking it means something about a person’s humanity or intelligence.

    • SSFC KDT (MOVED)OP
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      22 years ago

      Oh yeah, the *real* Chinese restaurants (as in, actual native Chinese people choose to eat there) have those in spades. As bad as old NES game manuals. Of course, at those places it’s a courtesy that they bothered to put laowai speak on their menus at all.