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[8] WRITING ABOUT LANGUAGE AND CULTURE3

[8] I know this for a fact, because when I was growing up, my mother's 'limited' English limited my perception of her, I was ashamed of her. English, I believed that her English reflected the quality of what she had to say, that is, because she expressed them imperfectly her thoughts were imperfectly. And I had plenty of empirical evidence to support me: the fact that people in department stores, at banks, and at restaurants did not take her seriously, did not give her good service, pretended not to understand her, or even acted as if they did not hear her. [5] so you'll have some idea of what this family talk I heard sounds like. I'll quote what my mother said during a recent conversation which I videotaped and then transcribed. During this conversation, my mother was talking about a political gangster in Shanghai who had the same last name as her family's. Du. And how the gangster in his early years wanted to be adopted by her family, which was rich by comparison. Later, the gangster became more powerful, far richer than my mother's family, and one day showed up at my mother's wedding to pay his respects. Here's what she said in part: 'Du Yusong having business like fruit stand. Like off the street kind. He is Du like Du Song - but not Tsung Ming island people. The local people call Putong, the river east side he belong to that side local people. That man want to ask Du Song father take him in like become own family. Du Song father wasn't look down on him, but didn't take seriously, until that man like big become a mafia. Now important person, very hard to inviting him. Chinese way came only to show respect, don't stay for dinner. Respect for making big celebration, he shows up. Mean gives lots of respects.

'Mother Tongue' English

Mother Tongue by Amy Tan. L161. Exploring languages and cultures. Language and communication in The digital age. Book 4. The Open University — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bobberthanu (talk • contribs) 22:05, 21 June 2018 (UTC)