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Jingjing-speak (晶晶體)

In modern Taiwanese culture, there is a ‘pretentious rich people’ stereotype which is characterised by shoehorning as many English words into one’s still apparently Mandarin-structured speech (晶晶體).

From a Westerner’s perspective, perhaps you can imagine someone speaking English but with some words randomly replaced with Latin or French equivalents.

Just imagine how unbearable it’d be.

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