Sunday, March 13, 2011

moonspeak

A co-worker of mine, who shall remain nameless; no, perhaps we'll call her "Shane" to ensure her anonymity, though calling her "Anonymous" would be more apt. Anyhow, Shane is an expert at Moon-speak. Have you not heard of this dialect? It smacks ever so slightly of racism (against the human race, what other?). Moon-speak is the term used to refer to the very broken English sometimes spoken by people from the Earth continent of Asia. People from the countries Japan and Korea are noted for their Moon-speak.

English is a much younger language than most on Asia, and it sounds and functions much differently, having been at such a remove in time and space for much of its existence. So, when someone  from an Asian country is learning English, the sound and meaning of what they are saying often remains foreign to an English speaker, and gets labeled as Moon-speak. I mention all of this by means of introduction. Shane and I refer to my wife as "mai waifu". 

Today, mai waifu, and mai famara-ee went for a walk in the very spooky Assiniboine forest. I cannot tell much more about this though, because mai waifu now has her own web-log, and she wants to write about the adventure. You can find it here:

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