Mike Judge's "Silicon Valley" (HBO Show)

it's never been established what the native language of either Jian Yang or the other guy is - obviously at the meeting they switch to a language (in this case mandarin, apparently) that Ehrlich doesn't know but which they both understand, the joke being on Ehrlich for faking the same dynamic earlier in the episode. But Jian Yang and VC dude's presumed proficiency/fluency in that language is not necessary for the joke to work.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3ac0oz/i_am_jimmy_o_yang_i_play_jianyang_on_hbos_silicon/csb9nuh/

fwiw there's the actor saying Jian Yang is supposed to be a native mandarin speaker

that shit's not in the show!

and my point is that he doesn't need to be a native in order for the joke to work!

pedants

if they're speaking mandarin with a boston accent, i think that's very necessary deep cut joke craft!

haha

fwiw I am virtually monolingual but it's still kind of jarring to me when a movie character is supposed to be mexican and sounds like they're speaking high school spanish because I can tell the difference?

I'm trying to figure out what you're not getting about the "it breaks the fourth wall" argument here

it's never been established what the native language of either Jian Yang or the other guy is - obviously at the meeting they switch to a language (in this case mandarin, apparently) that Ehrlich doesn't know but which they both understand, the joke being on Ehrlich for faking the same dynamic earlier in the episode. But Jian Yang and VC dude's presumed proficiency/fluency in that language is not necessary for the joke to work.

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, May 9, 2017 3:15 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark

his joke app is literally about chinese recipes for cooking octopus

I give up, enjoy preferencing irrelevant minutiae over joeks guys

this show's whole schtick is about irrelevant minutiae suddenly becoming relevant the next minute though

looking forward to next week's episode where Jian Yang's poor mandarin tanks their new app

it didn't seem off to me, but the point is I'm not vaguely fluent and wouldn't recognize "hey, the actor is playing this guy as a native mandarin speaker but obviously isn't" but to someone who can tell the diff it's a little jarring?

and we all liked the joke? what is your argument here, other than "stop noticing things" xxp

my argument is that it didn't ruin the joke

ie "ruined by the fact that tim chiou and jimmy o. yang's mandarin are both really, really bad lol"

no it was not

did he say it ruined it for you lol

speaking of noticing things: incredibly rapid baby gestation = crossover promo with new alien movie?

my argument is that it didn't ruin the joke

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, May 9, 2017 3:34 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark

this was a great way to give up

so do we think richard is going to pry this patent from gavin's grasp somehow

the whole "a new, better internet" sounds like way too big of a concept for any of these petty motherfuckers to even start to get a handle on

that moment where jared heard the self-driving car start to calculate the route to the island and he looked terrified was good

yeah that was a good callback

xp He's going to work with Gavin because that's how much he cares about the project.

I kept thinking that he could wait for the patent to expire (Peter Gregory seemed pretty young at the time) and try to keep the operations of his software a trade secret, but I'm sure I'm missing something.

I don't speak Mandarin so it doesn't bother me. But I am from Texas and egregiously bad 'Texas' and some southern accents bother the hell out of me.

When a movie or show screws up something you're intimately familiar with, it's going to distract or bother you, seems pretty simple.

not taking any sides in this dumbass argument but i think the limits of the suspension of disbelief are interesting. like a bad accent bothers you but seeing thomas middleditch in american express ads AND silicon valley doesn't bother you. fair enough. sometimes when people do this it comes across as a subtle attempt to brag about stuff they know about. like when people in the stranger things thread were like "the show takes place in 1983 but that song they played came out in 1985!" it's like, does that actually bother you or did you just want everyone to know that you noticed a discrepancy?

i want to make it very clear that i am not supporting shakey mo in this though

I don't know what's changed this season, but this show's gone from being a likeable lark to becoming my fave thing on right now.

I want to make it very clear that Stranger Things is a garbage show

it's actually pretty good

see what I did there, it's a personal opinion of mine, not a universal declaration that all people find it good

:)

also I feel like t.j. miller has been playing erlich, or an erlich-like character in multiple commercials

Based on the Comedy Central storytelling thing, TJ Miller is just Erlich.

I'd like to see The Departed with Richard and Jared in the leads.

I give up, enjoy preferencing irrelevant minutiae over joeks guys

new board description

http://i.imgur.com/2TIRZCg.jpg

hey does anyone know the source of the skull picture behind Dinesh in the image? it looks very familiar...

ask and ye shall receive
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that's pretty cool! i coulda sworn it was a purple shroud

Jared's reaction to the car <3

'the internet we deserve' is not likely to be A Good Thing btw

Russian man visited Chinese click farm.They make fake ratings for mobile apps and things like this.He said they have 10,000 more phones pic.twitter.com/qE96vgCCsi

— English Russia (@EnglishRussia1) May 11, 2017

tag yourself, I'm the woman who blows a kiss at camera

ffs i waiting to watch the latest episode before coming here to read 30 post about language proficiency ? lol

blame shakes

this show is so funny - i think it might be the best season yet

Not Hotdog

jian yang has not only eclipsed the other characters, he's somehow eclipsed both the sun and moon

"Trigger Warning: Fuck you!"

bad episdoe

the erlich in a corvette and fedora bit was a little too easy

Not as many laughs per second as the last two, but still good for laughs per minute.

Richard using Gavin's giant photographed forehead as a whiteboard was exquisite. I'm also happy anytime they get deep into Jared's psychosis.

Jared's list of means of violence was good

"Trigger Warning: Fuck you!"

died @ this

This show is on fire this season