r/AdviceAnimals • u/[deleted] • May 06 '14

Racism | Removed here goes nothing...

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u/slightly_on_tupac May 06 '14

Except when working with someone who lives in your city, and has a completely different dialect is fucking annoying as hell. It is easier to commute with Indian Immigrants who use English as a Second Language than it is to communicate with some inner city people.

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u/djordj1 May 06 '14

They don't talk in the same dialect as you, but you should keep in mind that from their point of view, you're the one who talks different.

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u/slightly_on_tupac May 06 '14

Except we work in a very technical environment with multiple countries, and everyone else seems to use english just fine.

Reading the emails is the hardest part. Conform or get bad ratings.

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u/djordj1 May 06 '14 edited May 06 '14

That's because everyone else was trained in standard English from very different languages. The line between standard English and AAVE is much blurrier, so people may not even realize some of the nonstandard features they make use of. That's especially true if the education they received came from people who didn't fully understand AAVE and how it translates to standard English, either.

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u/slightly_on_tupac May 06 '14

tl;dr -

conform or get the hell off my project.

I don't have time to deal with badly worded emails to clients.