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user-inactivated · 1504 days ago · link · · parent · post: Anyone ever feel tempted to pronounce "Arkansas" as "Are Kansas" or "Kansas" as "Can Saw" just to mess with people?
In general, I agree. Seeing as how awful the history of Native American treatment in America is, including the willful destruction of their languages, in this instance I don't know . . . I feel like I messed up. I'm not the kind of guy that would want to blindly, and definitely not willfully, make fun of other people's language. It's a pretty precious cornerstone of culture.
ThurberMingus · 1503 days ago · link ·
Huh. I do think the situations is funny. Feels like i'm making fun of our mixups not their native languages, but what do I know about the other perspective.