I knew it lol I was waiting for it. I give it 6 months until the national language has been renamed to “American” through a illegal executive order
“I only speak one language”… to a room full of mostly bilingual people who also live in (central or south) America. 🤦🤦🤦
They should only speak Spanish to him just to piss him off.
Those leaders are far right bootlickers.
Including the president elect of Chile (oh god please nonono… bah he doesn’t have the congress.)
Not beating the being stupid allegations…
Oh, good to know, because he can barely speak English.
He only speaks War Crime.
They should then switch to spanish as their lingua franca for that meeting (brazillians could pull if off).
Or switch to esperanto.No shit, it would be so damn funny if the whole world just switched over to Esperanto as second language, even if only to spite US and UK. Haah, one can dream the wildest things.
What language were they speaking in England before they stole one from USA?
England? Well there was Cornish and Manx. Cornish went extinct in the 18th century but the last monoglot speaker died in the 17th century.
I am not counting Welsh since that is in Wales… And Scots Gaelic is in Scotland, its own country.
The Scots and Irish keep Gaelic alive just to piss off the British.
Well that, but also it’s a really fucking cool language
Before or after the French took over in 1066?
imagine him thinking he has to speak LATIN in latin america. hes a mean drunk.
They speak Mexican!
USA is special kind of stupid that this probably gets a huge cheering back home.
Uh no. At least don’t paint us all with that brush please.
We gotta take our licks on this one. Look what we elected. It’s like a “not all men” thing. Sure it’s not actually all of us, but it’s enough of us to be a problem.
I’m sorry, I don’t agree with you. I’m from California and we are sitting over here just as aghast as any European nation you could name and larger than some.
We sent 54 electoral votes for Harris to Washington. You want to show me a European nation that did more than that to stop Trump?
I understand Americans as a whole have a responsibility. But this guy was trying to make a specific play-by-play call about how Americans are reacting to this back home and I see no logic in sitting quietly and agreeing with that.
USA is a special kind of stupid, but a majority still oppose war with Iran and… you know… raping children, so Hegseth isn’t too popular on the home front either.
a majority still oppose war with Iran and… you know… raping children
Yeah, I see, that’s why that majority stopped a pedophile president from having the control of the country, or stopped his clique of rarely sober religious nationalists from starting said war.
lmao you’re living in a fantasy if you think Americans have the capability to stop the government through instant, direct action
The only power we have is withholding our labor, and convincing people of the necessity of that when they’re brainwashed by capitalism is not an overnight or even over-4-years affair
Sounds to me like both of you are correct: most Americans don’t like him but there are still millions of them who cheer him and his kind of populist actions and words.
It’s doesn’t worth much since the majority just keep his ass tight seat waiting for a “miracle” or a “magic savior” for their situation.
Glad to hear that at least
The literal dumbest people run everything.
So Simplified English instead of Traditional English, right?
Simpleton* English
Honestly, the way they’re speaking. I’m fine with them calling it “american”.
It gives the rest of us a heads up that we should use small words so they can understand.
Honestly, the way they’re speaking. I’m fine with them calling it “american”.
I’m not a native English speaker, but I’ve always been confused by breaking up sentences like this. My understanding is that if one sentence doesn’t make senses on its own, it shouldn’t be standalone, but rather an introductory to the other one.
looks like a punctuation error to me. I would have written it this way:
Honestly—the way they’re speaking—I’m fine with them calling it ‘“american.”
You could separate the interjection with commas or parentheses too. the em dashes give some extra emphasis, while commas make it blend in a bit better.
It’s supposed to be a comma, an Oxford comma to be precise. But punctuation and comma are right next to eachother on my phone so, mistakes happen.
“English (Simplified)”
Or use big words when we don’t want them to understand.
Not sure if this is common knowledge among English speaking countries, but we in non English speaking countries use English when we don’t want our small kids to understand what we’re saying. 🫣
… until they start to understand and begin messing with you in return.
I think we’ll be able to tell when they do. Guess that’s a good time to start learning sign language lol.
Joking aside, I’ve come to understand that speaking a language in front of your kids that they can’t understand isn’t really a nice thing to do. Makes them feel excluded, and isn’t really cool to do to an adult so shouldn’t be cool to do to a child either.
Better to talk openly or just wait until you’re alone. 👍 For all the parents out there.
Its “I only speak english and bad english” you uncultured fuck
*badder english
Worser*
the worsest
Worsestershire.
Ah, that’s where the name comes.
You mean, wash-your-sister-sauce?!
You can really taste the anchovy!
I am so sorry. I don’t know what came over me.
Probably your sister.
~I’ll show myself out.~
“Subparest” when you wanna sound fancy
…I think they’re quoting ‘the fifth Element’ up there.
Ironically, that movie is French.
14 and edgy English yo.
Boom! Big bada boom!
And nazi, he speaks nazi too. That sieg heil in the photo didn’t happen by coincidence.
It’s an accurate snapshot of the American executive branch right now… the moron MAGA President asleep at the wheel, the moron MAGA underlings putting on full display their idiotic rendition of fascism.
Whilst spending untold billions on military gear for ice to violate our constitutional rights.
It’s an accurate snapshot of the American executive branch right now
Don’t sell us short, it’s also an accurate snapshot of the legislative and judicial branches, as well as about 30% of the general population!
Yeah, Putin’s favorite circus trope.
When he starts getting in his feelings about not being able to take over Ukraine I bet how bad he’s managed to fuck up our government is salve for his wounds.
Sabes cómo se llama uno que habla tres idiomas? Trilingüe.
Sabes cómo se llama uno que habla dos? Bilingüe.
Sabes como se llama uno que habla un sólo idioma? Americano. Se llama americano.
This fucking moron made himself the punchline of the joke that we invented to mock those like him.
It’s an American joke too but from satire so Pete probably didn’t get it… I wonder if Pete was a fan of The Boys
i don’t speak/read/write Spanish… i do speak two other languages that are not English, and i am not a fucking idiot, therefore, i can read text in a foreign language, and still get the joke.
As an American, I laughed.
Then I cried some more.
Shitgeth = puta merda.
Why is there a ü in the answers?
Edit: Thanks for explaining everyone. I have no idea how I missed that my whole life. I had no idea. It could be because I’m in Western Hemisphere but not sure.
Because that’s how it’s spelled.
Spanish uses ü, although relatively rarely. It signifies that you should pronounce the u and not merge it into nearby vowels.
Can ü get pregante?
No, that would make you feel embarazada
In Spanish in the syllables gue and gui the u is silent
When the ü is used it means the the u makes a sound like pingüino, cigüeña, vergüenza, güero, antigüedad, etc.
@bdonvr@thelemmy.club explained it very well in their comment. To add, in Spanish, the letter “g” when followed by either an “i” or an “e” will be pronounced in three different ways depending on whether you add an “u” in between, and if that “u” has a diaeresis on it. If you add the dieresis, it means you have to pronounce the “u”. Think of “pingüino” (penguin in english). In order to say the “u” in the word, we add the diaeresis that says the reader that they have to say the “u”. In Spanish, “guillotina”, “pingüino” and “ginebra” you will read the sillabe with a “g” and an “i” differently on each of those words.
Spanish has tons of grammar rules. It’s hard to learn them all, but when you do, it makes extremely easy to know how to say a word when you read it. Even where to put the accent (even if there is no tilde in the word).
Because that changes how it is pronounced
Let’s say- Penguin
In spanish it is Pingüino
“Pingüino” is pronounced “pinguino” (“gui” just like in english)
While “pinguino” would be something like “pingeeno”
That’s an easy to understand answer. I got it now! ;)
Because you are smiling at the fünny joke
We have the dumbest leaders ever," one person commented. “What a weird thing to be proud of,” a second person added"
this is some concise journalism. they didnt bother to even note if the people they were quoting were posting on twitter or a facebook thread in any way. just said “some dude said this”.
the irish star is a dirt rag tabloid, this isnt a source worth posting. surely other platforms are reporting on this
