something that irked me in my lang&culture classes was when they& #39;d say the blanket statement:

"when ppl codeswitch, they& #39;re not doing it bcuz they don& #39;t know the word"

well ACTUALLY I often codeswitch cuz idk the word and i know my GPs will get me lmao like hello? do I exist??

or there were other times where the professor would give an example of an ~inauthentic~ codeswitch & it& #39;s actually something que yo diría or seems fine to me. lmao.

meanwhile I& #39;d be sitting there like

and this has happened several time across several classes!!!!!

there are these ideas that sine linguists/linguistic anthropologists float around of what authentic codeswitching is and isn& #39;t and I think that& #39;s harmful.