• IratePirate@feddit.org
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        1 day ago

        I’m not a very fluent speaker of asshole, but I’ll try. I think this little man said that his severe lack of

        • education
        • basic decency

        did not allow him to

        • speak any other language than the one he was born with
        • know that this language is called “English”, and an “American” language does not exist
        • realise this was a flaw rather than a badge of honour proudly to be worn in a diplomatic context.
        • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today
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          Slight disagreement on there not being an american language. We actually have a bunch of native languages, one of which was used to help code communications during WWII.

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            24 hours ago

            You’re the best kind of correct - technically correct.

            And yet, if you happened to be a speaker of Navajo, Sioux or Algonquin, you’d say just that. You wouldn’t say “I speak American”, just like a speaker of Flemish, Albanian or Finnish would not say “I speak (Indo-)European”. It’s a description of the geographic origin or the broader language family, but not a category useful to indicate any specific language like Drunk Pete is trying to do here.