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Nathan Hammond 張拿敦
@nathanhammond.com

"Migrants" in this description doing a lot of heavy lifting.

Mae Nick Phra Khanong@nickjbrumfield.bsky.social

The Chinese characters in Sinners explicitly speak Taishanese (a southeast Chinese language not mutually intelligible with Cantonese spoken by a very disproportionate number of Chinese migrants to the US) which I thought was an incredibly niche but very accurate note

Nathan Hammond 張拿敦
@nathanhammond.com

Language-wise Taishanese still being Yue makes learning it less of a lift for a Cantonese speaker and vice versa. For some huge percentage of the syllables it's a 1:1 mapping to the syllable in the other. The average Taishanese speaker is also Cantonese fluent, though not so the other direction.

Manish
@manishearth.bsky.social

I was able to temporarily pick up most of the consonant mappings and some vowel mappings and hold them in my head enough to have a couple conversations but it wasn't a skill I practiced