Thank you for sharing! The Shaw video also made me emotional and I resonated with your thoughts about trying to speak "standard english." It makes me sad to think that parents feel these pressures to not teach their native language to their children. My parents definitely tried their best to teach me but my communication is very limited with my grandparents. I think working to dismantle prescriptive notions of language in our day to day interactions is both generally important and important to connecting with those whom we have a language barrier. If we were perhaps more okay with non-standard understandings of language there wouldn't be a sense of shame in trying to communicate in an unfamiliar language. I loved the Incomunicado video and the part you mentioned about connections transcending words/language really stuck out to me! We are definitely able to form and build relationships without words but it requires empathy and freeing ourselves from bias or prescriptivism.