[General] Can you show us?

[Silverobama]

In a chatroom, people were chatting about a place named Leshan:

A: I was born in Leshan.
B: Cool. You should show them around. (Them refer to people in that chat earlier)
C: Wow really?
A: Yes. One interesting thing is that the local language of Leshan is very difficult to understand. The accent is very strong and unique.
Silver: Can you show us?

The intended meaning is "Can you say a few words to us"?

Is my italic sentence natural?

 

[emsr2d2]

In a chatroom, people were chatting about a place named Leshan:

A: I was born in Leshan.
B: Cool. You should show them around. ("Them" refers to some people mentioned earlier in that chat.) [STRIKE]earlier)[/STRIKE]
C: Wow! Really?
A: Yes. One interesting thing is that the local language of Leshan is very difficult to understand. The accent is unique and very strong [STRIKE]and unique[/STRIKE].
Silver: Can you [STRIKE]show[/STRIKE] give us an example/a demonstration?

The intended meaning is "Can you say a few words to us?"

Is my italic sentence natural? No. See above.

See above. The reason I swapped the order of "very strong" and "unique" is that it looked as if "very" referred to both adjectives. That's not possible because something can't be "very unique".

 

[jutfrank]

I think it's very appropriate as it is, and it's definitely very natural.

 

[emsr2d2]

I just don't think that "show" works when you're going to give someone an audio demonstration.

 

[jutfrank]

There does seem to be something a bit wrong with it, doesn't there? We're so used to show being about something visual.

I do think it's fine, though. I'm sure it's what I'd say in this situation.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

To me, show is the right word, in the sense of demonstrate.

Nothing can be very unique. The prefix uni- signifies one, and unique means one-of-a-kind. So it's true that the Luchan dialect either is or isn't one-of-a-kind.

BUT: A doesn't say "very unique." Look again at how A actually describes the dialect: "very strong and unique." That can easily be understood to mean that it's very strong and that it's unique.

So I'll allow that, too.

 

[Tdol]

Could you say something in Leshan for us?

 

[Silverobama]

Could you say something in Leshan for us?

Much appreciated, Tdol. But I don't think the question makes sense. I forgot to say that "Leshan" is not a dialect or a language, so "say something in Leshan" doesn't make any sense.