CE is still used far more frequently than you’d think. I had been phasing it out for retail clients, but one of them had received brand new time clocks that ran CE
Also relevant, my college Chemistry teacher was going down the mole-related measurements, and noting that some students are going to have trouble confusing molarity and molality which are different things, and you may have to practice a bit.
I worked at a CD-ROM reseller in San Francisco in the 1990s staffed mostly by second-generation immigrants from China. They commonly poked fun at each other’s accent, with the fly lice! thing bouncing around the room at least once a week.
One of my local Thai restaurants has “wine by the grass” written out on the menu.
I hope most people aren’t hurt when language errors seem funny, my Japanese is not even conversational much less good enough to work in food service or notice if I said something funny. Care must be taken to separate a comical difference in the way we say things from prejudice and thinking it means something about a person’s humanity or intelligence.
Oh yeah, the real Chinese restaurants (as in, actual native Chinese people choose to eat there) have those in spades. As bad as old NES game manuals. Of course, at those places it's a courtesy that they bothered to put laowai speak on their menus at all.
Similarly, Korean transliterations of L and R use the same jamo, ᄅ. In actual use the character is pronounced like either English letter depending on where in the word it is.
That’s Japanese though, this is talking about Chinese. There are a lot of languages and dialects lumped under “Chinese” though. Iirc Mandarin has both an R and an L sound, however I think Cantonese doesn’t have an “R” (can’t remember, I studied some Mandarin when I was a teenager and I think I remember being told that Cantonese didn’t have an “R”, but it’s been a long time). Not sure about any other languages/dialects.
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