Eddie Trax ( @eddietrax@dmv.social ) English56•2 years agoAhh yes the blanket shit on Americans post.
MildlyArdvark ( @MildlyArdvark@feddit.dk ) 25•2 years agoIt’s timeless
SpermGoobler ( @SpermGoobler@lemmy.blue ) English15•2 years agoA classic
marco ( @marco@beehaw.org ) English6•2 years agoAccording to the U.S. Census Bureau, only 20 percent of Americans can converse in two or more languages, compared with 56 percent of Europeans.
Sused ( @Sused@lemmy.sdf.org ) 4•2 years agoI would of knew itd turn out this way
roon ( @roon@lemmy.ml ) English2•2 years agoBlanket 🤔
andresil ( @andresil@lemm.ee ) 37•2 years agoAmericans have trouble with any accent that isn’t the blandest, nails on chalkboard accent.
Once had one ask me if I was speaking English when I spoke to him (for context I am Irish, the north bit)
pjhenry1216 ( @pjhenry1216@kbin.social ) 12•2 years agoBland and nails on chalkboard? That’s like the opposite of bland. Not great, but definitely not bland. Bland is blunt and flat. Nails on chalkboard is shrill, sharp, and grating. I just don’t understand how you can believe both at the same time.
andresil ( @andresil@lemm.ee ) 2•2 years agoHere, I mean more the reaction to it, I sometimes cringe at the pronunciation or intonation in the way one would to nails on a chalkboard (the idiom can have more than one meaning or reaction attached to it)
pjhenry1216 ( @pjhenry1216@kbin.social ) 3•2 years agoThat doesn’t change the argument. Bland and cringe are also not like each other. I’m all for you criticizing something because it’s different than you, but at least use your language consistently and properly. How would anyone interpret a secondary analogy without knowing how you personally react? It already has a clear meaning on its surface. Occam’s razor would indicate that’s enough. Why would anyone invent a second possible scenario that’s only knowable if you have access to information that isn’t well known, and in this case, near certainty of being unknown? Just say hearing the accent from some other country makes you cringe. Communication doesn’t have to be difficult unless you make it so.
RomanceDailies ( @RomanceDailies@beehaw.org ) 6•2 years agoI am dating a man from England and it’s amazing how many people don’t understand his accent. It might just be me getting to know him, but I don’t find his accent (or even tough accents like Irish or Scottish) hard to understand anymore.
Melllvar ( @charonn0@startrek.website ) English1•2 years agoYou’ll probably hear more and more varied accents in an average US city than in all of Ireland.
Gormadt ( @Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English36•2 years agoMy 3 favorite experiences with language as an American:
(1) My Jamaican coworker who I couldn’t understand for the life of me and my Ukrainian coworker who my Jamaican couldn’t understand at all, the Ukrainian coworker understood the Jamaican coworker just fine though and I understood my Ukrainian coworker just fine. Basically it turns into a fun game of telephone whenever we need to talk.
(2) My former coworker from Haiti who no one but the hiring manager and I could understand, the best part about this is that I didn’t know he had an accent. I just didn’t hear it somehow. He was a great guy, he went back home a few years ago when his mother passed. Got stuck due to the pandemic and never came back to the company. I hope he’s doing well.
(3) My former coworker from Guatemala insisting English wasn’t my first language as to him it sounded like English was my second language at best. I’ve been working on it since then. I still suck at it.
Colour_me_triggered ( @Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee ) 25•2 years agoUm, plenty of Europeans speak 3 or more languages. Native language, language of the country you’re living in, and English.
Holzkohlen ( @Holzkohlen@feddit.de ) 14•2 years agoGerman, Bavarian and English 😁
geissi ( @geissi@feddit.de ) English3•2 years agoBavarian
On that note, I also understand some Swabian, Franconian, and Austrian.
magicalbeast69 ( @magicalbeast69@programming.dev ) 10•2 years agoThis. I think european and asian should be swapped in this meme. I think its rarer to see asian speak 3 languages than seeing european speak 3 languages
camillaSinensis ( @camillaSinensis@reddthat.com ) English13•2 years agoSurely that depends on where in Asia you’re looking at as well? On average, the number of languages people speak is quite different between, say, India and Japan. Or Switzerland vs Romania in Europe.
Colour_me_triggered ( @Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee ) 5•2 years agoMeh I only speak English and Norwegian. I can (with extreme difficulty) make myself understood in German, but I wouldn’t say I “speak German” . Although anyone who speaks Norwegian can also understand Swedish and Danish (not easily in the case of Danish unless it’s written).
CheshireSnake ( @CheshireSnake@lemdit.com ) English4•2 years agoAs an asian, this has been my experience as well. Of course there are exceptions, but most asians I know (not just in my country) usually just speak 2 languages.
OADINC ( @OADINC@feddit.nl ) 1•2 years agoDutch, English (Traditional not simplified), and french, and I can understand german but not speak it myself.
cambriakilgannon ( @cambriakilgannon@beehaw.org ) English20•2 years agoAmericans: “I Don’t think about you guys at all.”
Rengoku ( @Rengoku@lemmy.today ) 19•2 years agoYou are
Your
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kungen ( @kungen@feddit.nu ) 12•2 years agoThere, their, they’re.
hglman ( @hglman@lemmy.ml ) English4•2 years ago rgb3x3 ( @rgb3x3@beehaw.org ) English11•2 years agoAmerican here, I’m going to challenge myself to remember as many as I can.
Set: A group of things that go together.
Set: Letting a dessert cool in the fridge
Set: A stage for a play or film
Set: A command to put something somewhere
Set: A part of Tennis
…
5/704 isn’t so bad, right?
Edit: looking up the definitions shows a lot of sub-definitions that essentially have the same meaning. I don’t think it’s appropriate to say that the word has 435 meanings when “set a course” and “set a fire” are basically “start a thing,” yet they’re listed as different definitions. The are many many of these cases even just on Google’s definition blurb.
But I’m no dictionary expert so…
hglman ( @hglman@lemmy.ml ) English3•2 years agoYeah some do seem the same, but thats possilbe also a bias from knowning the language.
Pinklink ( @Pinklink@lemm.ee ) 4•2 years agoThough through thought
hungryphrog ( @hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 4•2 years agohave/of
of/off
to/too
ad/add
I today saw someone use “theirs” in place of “there is”, and I hope that they are a non-native speaker.
Archlinuxforever ( @Archlinuxforever@lemmy.3cm.us ) 18•2 years agoOh look, it’s the same old reposted garbage meme that I have seen on Reddit hundreds of times.
el_bhm ( @el_bhm@lemm.ee ) 17•2 years agoOh look, it’s the same old reposted garbage comment that I have seen on Reddit hundreds of times.
Archlinuxforever ( @Archlinuxforever@lemmy.3cm.us ) 10•2 years agoOh look, it’s the same old comment complaining about another comment that I have seen on Reddit hundreds of times.
Anid_Vid ( @Anid_Vid@reddthat.com ) 6•2 years agoidk I’ve seen this first time, and its hilarious, though agreed I never used Reddit that much
Archlinuxforever ( @Archlinuxforever@lemmy.3cm.us ) 2•2 years agoThis has been reposted on the dankmemes subreddit a countless amount of times.
HurlingDurling ( @HurlingDurling@lemm.ee ) English18•2 years agoExcuse me, but as an American I take offense to this meme. I speak 4 languages, English, Southern, Bostonian, and Spanish /s
Melllvar ( @charonn0@startrek.website ) English16•2 years agoI’ll never understand this attitude that Europeans have towards Americans. I thought we were friends.
Alien Nathan Edward ( @reverendsteveii@lemm.ee ) 17•2 years agoNorth Americans and Europeans are only friends when someone from a different continent is in the room.
Lifted_lowered ( @Lowered_lifted@beehaw.org ) English7•2 years agoThey believe themselves superior in every way, including racially. Look up the racist “le 56% face” Nazi memes to see what they think about that.
Ubermeisters ( @Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip ) 10•2 years agolook up racist memes intentionally
I think I won’t thanks
Melllvar ( @charonn0@startrek.website ) English3•2 years agoLook up the racist “le 56% face” Nazi memes
Wow. I had no idea this was a thing.
TheOakTree ( @TheOakTree@beehaw.org ) English2•2 years agoModern neo-nazis and white supremacists just don’t really understand that the Nazis from WWII would reject and enslave a majority of them… mainly for having Jewish, Slavic, Roma, or other ethnic groups’ blood.
Turns out post-WWI/WWII economic crises lead to a lot of migration and mixing of groups, who woulda thunk?
The “le 56% face” meme, on both sides of the coin, is just a precursor to the world’s greatest Leopards ate My Face meme.
Stuka ( @Stuka@lemmy.ml ) 7•2 years agoMy theory is they don’t like constantly seeing us in their news and entertainment when we rarely see anything at all from their country.
RushingSquirrel ( @RushingSquirrel@lemm.ee ) 3•2 years agoThing is, there’s not much American news outside of the US. I live in Canada and have far less news about America than I’d thought there should be given how we are neighbors and partners. Most of the news I used to hear about the USA is from Reddit. And when I visit France (which I do regularly, bring born there), there’s almost nothing about the US there.
Recently though, Trump was also over and it wasn’t pretty. Also when going on Reddit, it’s 80% about US News and content, but not necessarily the best news.
Overall, what bothers me and others is how much patriotic a lot of the Americans seem to be and how great they seem to think they are, even when you hear how bad the society is in terms of healthcare, pension, divided politics, crimes, conspiracy theory, etc.
But everytime I’ve been to the US, I’ve only met great and friendly people and have always appreciated it. You usually hear about the bad parts in the news.
t�m ( @finickydesert@lemmy.ml ) 5•2 years agoThey can’t talk to eagles 🦅 so they don’t count that as a language
TheOakTree ( @TheOakTree@beehaw.org ) 4•2 years agoJust a friendly reminder that bald eagles just sound like noisier seagulls. :)
Kiosade ( @Kiosade@lemmy.ca ) 5•2 years agoI remember back in high school there was this Danish foreign exchange student one year, and she would not shut up about how this or that was better in Denmark.
paurix ( @paurix@feddit.de ) 8•2 years agoThose kind of people exist anywhere, that isn’t tied to any nationality. Guess it stemms from insecurities and chasing some weird need to feel superior about something.
BigBen103 ( @BigBen103@lemm.ee ) 1•2 years agoWe are only friends because the other big guys look way because out of the big guys the usa look the least scary.
BruceLee ( @BruceLee@lemmy.ml ) English11•2 years agoMeanwhile, many africans speak 2 languages in their family, a third one for people that don’t speak one of theses two and have studied french and english.
nasi_goreng ( @nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip ) 5•2 years agoSo, exactly how it works in Southeast Asia, especially Indonesian.
They speak native local language from their city, other two from other islands, English for international language, sometimes Chinese, Malay, Arabic, Korean, or Japanese. Not to forget the national language, Indonesian.
SeedyOne ( @SeedyOne@lemmy.ca ) 11•2 years agoGo easy on us, our 1% needs to keep us stupid for myriad reasons, mostly to stay in power. Don’t worry though, they’ll come for you next, wherever you are. Likely selling you on some other enemy or distraction.
WtfEvenIsExistence3️ ( @WtfEvenIsExistence@reddthat.com ) English9•2 years ago同志们,我们现在加入了 Lemmy 党。打到 Reddit 邪党!Lemmy 万岁 万岁 万万岁!
这句子绝对不是用 Google翻译 翻译出来的。
Oh wow can’t believe I actually remember learning words from 2nd grade. Like long long ago, haven’t used that language in over a decade. Somehow I can remember a decade old language I don’t even use anymore, but not my Bitwarden password.
Roundcat ( @Roundcat@kbin.social ) 9•2 years ago面白いね。メキシコがアメリカの近くにあるのに、アメリカの大分がスペイン語を全然はなせないねw!私もスペイン語が習いたいけど、日本語もうPainintheassだよ!
Naomikho ( @Naomikho@monyet.cc ) 2•2 years ago日本語難しいね。。。
sounddrill ( @sounddrill@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz ) English8•2 years agoSome of my collegemates know 6 languages(India)
KSP Atlas ( @KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz ) 8•2 years agoIndia is basically a language generator
sounddrill ( @sounddrill@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz ) English1•2 years agoHaha
LiaWong ( @LiaWong@geddit.social ) English6•2 years agoSouth and Southeast Asians really put all their xp into languages
sounddrill ( @sounddrill@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz ) English1•2 years agoThey will speak hindi, their native and 3 neighboring states’ languages fluently and then complain about north Indian hindi oppression
(which is definitely a thing but I have my own different views on it not expressed in this comment or comparison)
CAPSLOCKFTW ( @CAPSLOCKFTW@lemmy.ml ) 7•2 years agoGerman here, speaking english fluently, enough french to get everything done while on vacation in France or Wallony and learning Japanese atm.