Yesterday I was bored and couldn't sleep due to my whacky sleep schedule so I stayed online to browse some more before taking a bath.

My parents are originally born from China, in Hoisan (Taishan for Mandarin and Toisan for Cantonese pronunciations) to be exact. I've known for all my life while growing up that my Chinese was different from what my relatives here in the U.S. spoke. They either spoke Hong Kong Cantonese, Mandarin or both. What I speak is a subdialect of Cantonese called...