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Victorian Salad
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Context: Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar Ponte y Palacios Blanco also known as Simón Bolívar was a revolutionary figure and namesake for the country of Bolivia.
The Victorian Era is named after Queen Victoria and her depressing clothing choices.
Caesar Salad is named after a Mexican Italian chef, Caesar Cardini. Who is well known for overseeing the Roman Republics collapse into an empire.
I know English does this a decent bit but it always makes me smile when I hear a Japanese person speaking Japanese and then just randomly hitting you with a borrowed English word but with a Japanese accent
It's cute until you're speaking Japanese in Japan and have to remember how to say a particular mangled English word in order to be understood. You have to learn to pronounce so many things ostensibly like a character doing a racist Japanese accent.
I wore my bureza (blazer) and wai shatsu (white dress shirt) and rode my baiku (bike) to sutaba (starbucks) and bought a koppu (cup) of ko-hi (coffee).
As a language learner it gets old.
I've tried learning a few languages and one of the things I learned is that the accent is part of the language. So yeah it might feel a little racist like you're doing a caricature but it does actually help native speakers understand you better.