在家还跟我打官腔啊
“Speaking to me like I'm your subordinate?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
在家 还跟我 打官腔 啊
“Speaking to me like I'm your subordinate?”
“Do you know you reek of cigarettes when you get home?”
“Drop the stiff office persona; we are family, so talk to me like a real human.”
Chinese domestic partners strongly expect professional barriers and formal political talk to be discarded at the front door in favor of domestic warmth and vulnerability.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to talk like a bureaucrat; to use bureaucratic jargon
Widely used to call out someone for speaking defensively, evasively, or stiffly instead of being authentic.
Infuses the rhetorical question with disbelief, annoyance, and mild indignation.