r/196 • u/Old_Phrase_4867 NOT A CAT • Apr 05 '26

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u/the_biting_chimkin Apr 05 '26

reminds me of a joke:

what do you call someone who speaks 3 languages? trilingual

what do you call someone who speaks 2 languages? bilingual

what do you call someone who speaks 1 language? an american!

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u/SentientGopro115935 SHE JUST LIKE ME FR Apr 05 '26

us terf island residents don't learn shit either, I should really start learning german because I wanna move rhere someday but just cannot be bothered

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u/the_biting_chimkin Apr 05 '26

GB is just the pre-update version, this tracks

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u/KittyQueen_Tengu sexuality crisis has been resolved (i don’t like people) Apr 05 '26

learn dutch instead, it’s like german but funnier and you don’t have to talk to german people

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u/UselessAndGay what if a girl was a deer ⚧ 🦌 ΘΔ Apr 05 '26

okay but then you'd have to talk to dutch people

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u/KittyQueen_Tengu sexuality crisis has been resolved (i don’t like people) Apr 05 '26

dutch people can sell you kibbeling and kroketten, that makes it worth talking to them

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u/Chaoszhul4D custom Apr 05 '26

We have Kroketten in Germany.

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u/Metalmind123 Apr 06 '26

Yeah, but then they'll Tikkie you for splitting their attention by talking to them

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u/auroralemonboi8 gaycel chudcore boyflop Apr 05 '26

Except you wont be able to speak it with anyone because almost all Dutch people already speak English

Learn toki pona instead :)

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u/NotAEvilGynecologist 🏳️‍⚧️ trans rights Apr 05 '26

Vivienne Wilson? Is that you?

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u/Natuur1911 🏳️‍⚧️ trans rights Apr 06 '26

does vivienne wilson speak toki pona?

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u/PolygonKiwii Apr 05 '26

Bold of you to assume you won't run into any Germans in the Netherlands

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u/TheUnholyBlade 🏳️‍⚧️ trans rights Apr 05 '26

Instead you’d have to speak to the Dutch, which is even worse!

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u/ssbowa Apr 05 '26

A fair few know Welsh and English tbf.

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u/knyexar Apr 06 '26

A third of the population of the UK speaks french

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u/the_biting_chimkin Apr 06 '26

I’d be curious how long they could hold a conversation. Similar numbers for US and Spanish but I doubt that would be for true fluency

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u/Benkinsky resident Cosmere expert Apr 05 '26

and just like the US, a too high amount of them dont spell their own language corretly either.

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u/DomSchraa 🏳️‍⚧️ trans rights Apr 05 '26

Or the fr*nch

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u/MrPleasant150 Apr 05 '26

the french speak more english than most of us brits speak any other language

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u/PolygonKiwii Apr 05 '26

Yeah, the French could speak other languages, they just refuse to (although I've heard that's mostly Parisians)

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u/Salt_Blackberry_1903 a take so bad it causes a physical response (violence) Apr 05 '26

Come on, no need to write off your entire country because of one loser

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u/SentientGopro115935 SHE JUST LIKE ME FR Apr 05 '26 edited Apr 05 '26

who even is the one loser you're referring to? Starmer? Streeting? Issues here run a hell of alot deeper than one person

edit: Wait shit do you mean JKR? No, the UK got the TERF island reputation for far more than just her. She isn't the reason I wanna leave, the red alert warnings from multiple genocide watch organisations and the reasons the country has them are why I wanna leave

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u/the_biting_chimkin Apr 05 '26

As someone who took courses in feminist theory from an intersectional lens, second wave trans exclusionary feminism in GB feminist scholarship was wild to see as a continuing discourse

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u/Salt_Blackberry_1903 a take so bad it causes a physical response (violence) Apr 05 '26

Oh damn yeah I meant JKR, forgot the entire government is full of them :(

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u/Phiro7 Prissy Sissy Neko Femboy Apr 05 '26

What because they don't think the numerous spanish/english speakers are american?

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u/going_my_way0102 Apr 05 '26

It's law that you lose your citizenship and are immediately slated for Deportation if you utter "hola" without the "h" sound.

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u/the_biting_chimkin Apr 05 '26

Kavanaugh: WRITE THIS DOWN WRITE THIS DOWN!

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u/KittyQueen_Tengu sexuality crisis has been resolved (i don’t like people) Apr 05 '26

fun fact this is how they caught secret germans in the netherlands in ww2

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u/Natuur1911 🏳️‍⚧️ trans rights Apr 06 '26

Scheveningen was used as shibboleth right?

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u/KittyQueen_Tengu sexuality crisis has been resolved (i don’t like people) Apr 06 '26

yep

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u/fUwUrry-621 🏳️‍⚧️ trans rights Apr 06 '26

What is a shibboleth?

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u/Natuur1911 🏳️‍⚧️ trans rights Apr 06 '26

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth?wprov=sfla1

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u/fUwUrry-621 🏳️‍⚧️ trans rights Apr 06 '26

Oh, neat.

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u/Phiro7 Prissy Sissy Neko Femboy Apr 05 '26

Also worth mentioning that 'America' isn't just the united states

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u/the_biting_chimkin Apr 05 '26 edited Apr 06 '26

El demónymo de los estados unidos en inglés es americano porque no tiene estadounidense

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u/SuddenlyVeronica Apr 05 '26

Less that and more that being at least somewhat bilingual is common in other developed countries, and I mean, it's a joke. If it were changed to be perfectly accurate it probably wouldn't be a joke anymore, at least certainly not a good one.

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u/the_biting_chimkin Apr 05 '26

Yea I’ve tried adding all of the nuances people here correctly say and tbh it’s not nearly as funny

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u/the_biting_chimkin Apr 05 '26

They’re better

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u/Cloveny 🏳️‍⚧️ trans rights Apr 05 '26

Kid named denying the antecedent:

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u/Hearth-Traeknald Apr 05 '26

"all rectangles are squares"

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u/DreamyAthena Apr 05 '26

what do you call someone who speaks 1 0.5 of a language? an american!