*fails to catch and watches as you land on your back*
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@serosenpai
You’re a bitch
Je bent een teringteef
Jy’s kak sag
Du bist eine Schlampe
Tu es une pute
Last three don’t quite mean bitch, but they’re about as bad I think
I think that even if you speak more languages that’s still a jerk move, and realistically you wouldn’t be able to look down on them anyway if you spoke 2+ fluent languages. For instance- Russian and Ukrainian have roughly 60% interchangeability. Some languages are so close that native speakers of each can easily understand the other in all but the most nuanced speech, so it is much easier for most to learn these similar languages or languages structured like their native language than it is for a person from a radically different language to learn another. Brining us to another point- some languages are generally just much harder to learn to speak well. Certain Arabic languages for instance, or Dialects of Chinese tend to be harder for non natives than a language like Spanish or Italian. Though a native Speaker of Mandarin may or may not have less trouble than a native English speaker in learning Cantonese vs Italian. So it’s relative, but people trying shouldn’t be made fun of.
Tbh, the interchangeability applies for most slavic languages. Knowing one allows you to mostly understand the other, at least in terms of sentence construction and similar words. So yeah, given I know Russian, I could understand quite a bit of Polish showing up in something like the new Wolfenstein games, for instance.
P.S. My inner grammar nazi cannot handle writing "Bringing us" as "Brining is"
Tbh, the interchangeability applies for most slavic languages. Knowing one allows you to mostly understand the other, at least in terms of sentence construction and similar words. So yeah, given I know Russian, I could understand quite a bit of Polish showing up in something like the new Wolfenstein games, for instance.
P.S. My inner grammar nazi cannot handle writing "Bringing us" as "Brining is"
I did not do that, hold up.
Edit: Welp, blame my school internet for being a pile of crap and not showing that my comment posted when I refreshed the page
No grammar Nazi is needed, only a basic grasp of English is required to stop one from writing “brining is” as opposed to “brining us.” Unfortunately the auto correct doesn’t have a basic grasp of the English language, my editor is on vacation, and it slipped my notice. But thank you. The typo has been corrected. It is true of many Slavic languages which before Rus come from the same family. It’s true of many other languages too- but with character count and other factors I figured I’d be specific in an example.
I don't mind an accent, and I'm more than happy to take your order in Spanish if you ask me, "habla ingles?" but if you just come in, see my pale ass skin, and just start ordering in Spanish, I will legit pretend I don't know a lick of Spanish and stumble my way through your order. It's just not polite to assume shit. I mean, hell, I wouldn't go to Mexico and just start ordering in English. No, I'm gonna learn enough Spanish to get by, because it's the right thing to do!
Hmm... Appeal to Authority fallacy. You dont have to speak to two langauges to criticize someone of speaking your native langauge poorly. My father's an immigrant to the US and has a terrible accent despite living and working here for over 30s. We criticize him all the time for it. Generally, you should always be looking to improve your langauge skills.
There’s a difference between criticism and mocking- where this post specified mocking. Constructive criticism is helpful in improving a persons language skills- certain criticism can be unhelpful or even make people less likely to want to apply themselves and improve. It’s all very dependent on the people and situations involved. However regardless- mocking does not have to be criticism and criticism doesn’t have to be mocking. That too would be a logical fallacy.
Not really how that works, depending on his native language English might be quite difficult to learn, languages are harder to master once you’ve passed a certain age, and some people simply have more difficulty with acquiring new languages than others.
@ themasdsnipe- Wether or not you believe he should learn, wether or not you think you are helping- my point stands and you haven’t and cannot counter it. Yours is a logical fallacy as well, and your original point is mute as the original post doesn’t specify that you shouldn’t critique or otherwise correct language- it specifies one should not mock it. To be more specific, it includes a caveat to that which you and your family may not meet- and wether intentional or even if one agrees with that caveat it would still make this not apply in your case, thus making the example irrelevant save to reinforce the original post and not to countermand it.
My grandfather has said before that one of the saddest moments in his life was when he stopped thinking in Cherokee. He still takes thinks very literally when spoken to in english as a lot of the sayings and slang phrases don't have an analog in Cherokee. A lot of people that have to learn English because of America cling to their native language and with some like your family member that may manifests in an unwillingness to learn English better than what they already know. My grandfather luckily still has people to talk to in Cherokee seeing as it's one of the actual native languages of this country but it's still something that a lot of native speakers are rather depressed with.
Sad but true. I appreciate you sharing that though. It’s heart breaking how many native languages are dying or dead. There’s hope for many as new generations and various programs work to save the cultural heritage that was stripped away from so many, but it’s sad that not all will succeed, and even if they do many will have lived much of their lives with a part of themselves taken away. These dark chapter in history should remind us to not make the same mistakes or be consumed by the same selfish or cruel thinking, but often the lessons go un heeded.
Cherokee is one of the luckier languages as we have a school in our capitol that teaches Cherokee kids to speak it as well as our highschool has Cherokee I and Cherokee II. Our college used to have a class idk if it still does.
You’re a bitch
Je bent een teringteef
Jy’s kak sag
Du bist eine Schlampe
Tu es une pute
Last three don’t quite mean bitch, but they’re about as bad I think
But they can still slap you in their native language
P.S. My inner grammar nazi cannot handle writing "Bringing us" as "Brining is"
P.S. My inner grammar nazi cannot handle writing "Bringing us" as "Brining is"
Edit: Welp, blame my school internet for being a pile of crap and not showing that my comment posted when I refreshed the page