Apparently, the waiters from that notorious scene from A Christmas Story were almost certainly doing it on purpose:
Aside from the boss being able to say his "R"s properly, Chinese phonology doesn't work that way. If anything (at least if they were originally Cantonese speakers), it'd be the other way around. Maybe if they originally spoke some other dialect, but those are rare among Chinese-Americans, especially in the 1940s.
Aside from the boss being able to say his "R"s properly, Chinese phonology doesn't work that way. If anything (at least if they were originally Cantonese speakers), it'd be the other way around. Maybe if they originally spoke some other dialect, but those are rare among Chinese-Americans, especially in the 1940s.
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.