yeah like i'm fine with people like sandra cisneros for instance, or amy tan in the joy luck club—i'm okay when they use it because their work is so often mired in these other cultures and want to reflect them in a way that often needs the introduction of the mother tongue of these characters

but the other day i read this cheever short story where there was just this huge paragraph of untranslated french smack in the middle of the story AND I GOT SO ANNOYED LMAO like w h y did you think that was at all necessary, dude?! like i took french in hs so i could marginally parse what it meant but i was nhft