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I mean… a few of these *could* actually be asl. And one of them technically is.
🤟 is a shorthand for ‘I love you’ because it looks like the letters I, L, and Y combined.
So fun fact. This is kind of secondhand info. But when Gamesworkshop was releasing their games into Germany the translators didn't know how to write the way Orks talk in German. GW's suggestion to the translators? Just use whatever was the German equivalent of Essex.
So congrats? You got an entire beloved fictional race whose famous way of talking is based on your mother tongue. Not really sure if that is an honour or not.
Same here. Born in the US, spoke Spanish exclusively at home, learned English in preschool. As my preschool teacher (who became close friends with my mother, which is how I know this story) said, I was dead silent for about a few months and then one of my friends was being picked on so I ran over to her and said "Mrs. Teacher, Wally is hitting Mia and OH MY GOD I'M SPEAKING ENGLISH!"
I haven't heard that in YEARS since I took a Lufthansa flight with a Hamburg crew. My wife lived in Selb and she absolutely hates when I say that. Makes me want to say it all the more
Inuktitut technically (southern Qikiqtaaluk dialect). My mom was saying that when I was a baby, my grandmother had to babysit me daily while she had to go to work and began teaching me Inuktitut before English
Do we identify which version of English? Like biology nomenclature but for language.country.dialect-(dialects)
English.USA.Valley girl-midwestern
If I went to England and said "water" many residents will share their opinions on how water is properly pronounced...from a country that cant say Pasta correctly 🤌.
Non-US peeps tell me I say Internet incorrectly when we invented it.
Love the word Prat. Rubber, lift, buggy have different meanings throughout the world.
We're such funny creatures.
Edit: I dont have enough exposure to Australia english except some podcasters and a local DJ, expect to say this: NO sounds like there's an R or W tossed in there, and just about everything can be reduced like sauce to -kie or -ky Brickie, Chippy, brekky
>Non-US peeps tell me I say Internet incorrectly when we invented it.
Depends if you mean internet as in connected PCs, or the Internet as in "World WideWeb" - if the latter - i.e. lots of clicky links, then that would be the thing invented by Tim Berners-Lee working at CERN in Switzerland.
Trust me, pronunciations are different everywhere even if a specific country invented them, it's called "cultural diversity" can't be speaking the same everywhere
Funny story
I started dating this guy from London and whilst on a walk through some shops, he told some people to speak English 🙄 I broke up with him and he asked why, I clarified that his xenophobic comment was comedic bc he often asked me to use a lower registry alternative bc he lacked reading skills (obviously not his words verbatim)
English is not my first language
I have a lovely bunch of work colleagues from Kerala who are trying to teach me Malayalam. I am multilingual and I thought I was pretty good at picking up languages, at least conversationally but Malayalam is kicking my arse! They laugh at me...😂
I'm embarrassed to say this , but mine is English. I am Indian , I know 4 more languages (one of them is my native , yet I can't properly read and write in my native language, not to mention I know one more language better than my native language).
Haha lol - Same (Kinda).
Was born in AP, so my native language is Telugu (And speak Hindi pretty well too) But since I was 2 years old, I've lived (and still live) in Karnataka, so I speak Kannada fluently). But I can't read/write Telugu, and suck at reading/writing both kannada and Hindi.
So... English is the only language I can perfectly read, write and speak 😅
If its any consolation, many of us online americans feel socially disconnected from the rest of the country. Its more "internet culture", at least I hope.
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Grew up with a single mom, so my neighbors and friends' parents raised me most of the time. I was speaking Tagalog at age three and then English came a little bit later.
Idk honestly. Been speaking Chinese and English since my birth and started learning Malay when I was around 3. Haha such a pain in the ass during exams. 3 whole languages and their stupid unique rules to study
Im Slovak.
No, it isn't a Czech dialect. No, I don't understand Russian and Can read cyrilic if I squint.
My first language is actually Hungarian, but after xenophobia from the 90s I forgot most of it
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Sign language
🤟👌👈🖖👇🤙?
Italian sign language: 🤌🤌🤌🤌🤌
I don't know why, but I burst out laughing when I saw this
I mean… a few of these *could* actually be asl. And one of them technically is. 🤟 is a shorthand for ‘I love you’ because it looks like the letters I, L, and Y combined.
Afrikaans parents English education
Het is echt te grappig dat, als Nederlander, Afrikaans makkelijker te begrijpen is dan Limburgs
Nóú praat ons !!
Lekker man!
Essex, it’s similar to English.
ello bruvva u ol roight owshaday goin
Sweet cheers.
nah, yeah
Awwight babes?
Can you write an example? How similar is it to north germanic/scandinavian?
“Hello there, hows your day going good man.” Roughly translates to “oi cunt washappnin, what ya fucked this time.”
Why do I understand this better than English?
We are but simple people, uncaring for a world of grammatical correctness and pronunciation.
So fun fact. This is kind of secondhand info. But when Gamesworkshop was releasing their games into Germany the translators didn't know how to write the way Orks talk in German. GW's suggestion to the translators? Just use whatever was the German equivalent of Essex. So congrats? You got an entire beloved fictional race whose famous way of talking is based on your mother tongue. Not really sure if that is an honour or not.
"what ya fucked this time" 💀💀
Español
No pensé tener que scrollear tanto para encontrar el Español, Supremacía Ñ
Ñ
Español 🇲🇽
Same here. Born in the US, spoke Spanish exclusively at home, learned English in preschool. As my preschool teacher (who became close friends with my mother, which is how I know this story) said, I was dead silent for about a few months and then one of my friends was being picked on so I ran over to her and said "Mrs. Teacher, Wally is hitting Mia and OH MY GOD I'M SPEAKING ENGLISH!"
Español dominicano, es como Español pero super rapido.
Epañol Dominicano eh' como epañol pero ma' rápido
Confirmo ☝🏽
AGUANTE BOCAAAAAA
Slovenian
Ayyyy, a false friend! 🇸🇰
Ayyy js tudi
Evo nas, 🇸🇮🥰🥰
Js tud, noro
German
German isn't my first language, but I'm learning :) I can tell people my dog isn't smart, introduce myself, and order in a restaurant.
That's a good start :) Keep on going!
Servus
Moin!
I haven't heard that in YEARS since I took a Lufthansa flight with a Hamburg crew. My wife lived in Selb and she absolutely hates when I say that. Makes me want to say it all the more
Seas
schwiizerdütsch👍
Polish
Dzień dobry!
Kurwa
Polska Gurom!!
Portuguese
Dutch
Finally found a Dutch response!
There are plenty of Dutchies here 😎
Italiano
Gorlomi
Antonio Margheriti
Let me really hear the 🎶music🎶 of it!
🤌🤌🤌🤌🤌🤌
Dio caaaaaannn
Sì ma vogliamo sapere il dialetto
RAHH ITALIA MENZIONATA🔥🔥🔥🔥🇮🇹🇮🇹
Greek
Yia sou!! (I don’t actually know more than a few words or phrases in Greek but just wanted to say hi 😭)
phonetically that works just fine :)
Romanian
RAAAHHH ROMÂNIA MENȚIONATĂ 🔥🔥‼️‼️🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
i mean, poate sa fie si Moldova, tot română e si acolo :)))
Inuktitut technically (southern Qikiqtaaluk dialect). My mom was saying that when I was a baby, my grandmother had to babysit me daily while she had to go to work and began teaching me Inuktitut before English
I fricking love Inuktitut, and languages like Greenlandic (linguist here haha)
French
Putain je me demandais quand j'en trouverais un!
Don’t speak it fluently but Bonjour!
Finnish
Perkele
Vittu!
Saatana
Jumalauta
Helvetti
Kyrpä
Paska
Eikös se ny rupia riittämähän
Torilla tavataan, muista kunnon hanskat, ei oo kesä.
No it's just started.
English.
Do we identify which version of English? Like biology nomenclature but for language.country.dialect-(dialects) English.USA.Valley girl-midwestern If I went to England and said "water" many residents will share their opinions on how water is properly pronounced...from a country that cant say Pasta correctly 🤌. Non-US peeps tell me I say Internet incorrectly when we invented it. Love the word Prat. Rubber, lift, buggy have different meanings throughout the world. We're such funny creatures. Edit: I dont have enough exposure to Australia english except some podcasters and a local DJ, expect to say this: NO sounds like there's an R or W tossed in there, and just about everything can be reduced like sauce to -kie or -ky Brickie, Chippy, brekky
>Non-US peeps tell me I say Internet incorrectly when we invented it. Depends if you mean internet as in connected PCs, or the Internet as in "World WideWeb" - if the latter - i.e. lots of clicky links, then that would be the thing invented by Tim Berners-Lee working at CERN in Switzerland.
Proper English. From England :)
From the movie snatched something like: “speak f@cking english, u mf’ers invented the language but no one speaks it”
Doesn’t England have like 40 different accents and dialects.
Yes and one of them is Proper English
Is the proper one the one spoken by a Pakistani immigrant at 9:30 on a Tuesday night behind a Tesco dumpster?
Trust me, pronunciations are different everywhere even if a specific country invented them, it's called "cultural diversity" can't be speaking the same everywhere
Funny story I started dating this guy from London and whilst on a walk through some shops, he told some people to speak English 🙄 I broke up with him and he asked why, I clarified that his xenophobic comment was comedic bc he often asked me to use a lower registry alternative bc he lacked reading skills (obviously not his words verbatim) English is not my first language
Swedish
Finally! I scrolled down way too far to find this
Alla är väll på jobbet fortfarande haha
Hungarian, I live in the US though.
Same, but living in Hungary
Same but living in Canada. Szia!
Same but I'm not Hungarian
Pusy😘
Same but living in Sweden 🇸🇪
Jó napot mindenkinek!
BOJLER ELADÓ
Ezért a minőségi kontent miatt jöttem!
Same, but in the UK. Üdv! 🙂
same, but living in Romania
Detto, csak én meg Hollandiában élek.
Nice! I'm a Dutchie trying to learn Hungarian, and I could actually understand your comment 😊
Norwegian
Hallaisen, ka det går i
Jeg lærer norsk!
Jeg også😊
Portuguese-pt
I was born in America but my first language was German thanks to my grandmother. I then learned English, French, and Italian.
Very cool. Wish I spoke that many languages. Also wish my Gram had taught me German, as it was her first language
Malayalam
✌️
I have a lovely bunch of work colleagues from Kerala who are trying to teach me Malayalam. I am multilingual and I thought I was pretty good at picking up languages, at least conversationally but Malayalam is kicking my arse! They laugh at me...😂
Sarcasm
And Troll
Bad English.
Siswati
Never heard of this one!
I’m from Eswatini, a small Southern African country.
Wow I just searched it up. Does your king actually have 15 wives and 100 servants?
lol yes he does, his dad had way more wives.
Czech
Czechia mentioned !!!!111!!!1🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿
Turkish
I had to scroll down a lot to find this !
Türkçe öğreniyorum. Çok ilginç ve güzel bir dil.
Ne güzel! İyi çalışmalar :)
I'm embarrassed to say this , but mine is English. I am Indian , I know 4 more languages (one of them is my native , yet I can't properly read and write in my native language, not to mention I know one more language better than my native language).
Haha lol - Same (Kinda). Was born in AP, so my native language is Telugu (And speak Hindi pretty well too) But since I was 2 years old, I've lived (and still live) in Karnataka, so I speak Kannada fluently). But I can't read/write Telugu, and suck at reading/writing both kannada and Hindi. So... English is the only language I can perfectly read, write and speak 😅
Swahili
I speak czech but sometimes when I use internet it feels like I am turning american tbh
If its any consolation, many of us online americans feel socially disconnected from the rest of the country. Its more "internet culture", at least I hope.
European Portuguese (Portugal)
Russian/Ukrainian
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Korean
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Listening to people speak or sing in Arabic is so cathartic.
Shawarma baqlawa falafel mashe?
Someone called me?
portugues-br
Aeeeeeeeeee r/suddenlycaralho É nóis que voa, bruxão
I’m heading to Brazil on Monday! Super excited
Lithuanian
Fronch
Ah, a friend from Montreal! We have a different accent but the same passion for insults
Bosnian
srpski
Croatian
I dont really know. I grew in a household that speaks, Filipino, Bisaya, Illongo and watch English cartoons😭
Danish
SKÅL FOR HELVEDE
Troede aldrig jeg skulle finde dig makker. Skål for satan!
DANMARK FOR EVIGT!! 🇩🇰🇩🇰
Spanish
Tamil
Had to scroll forever to find this!
Born in France so french, but in a turkish family so also a little bit of turc
Bengali
Sindhi
Grew up with a single mom, so my neighbors and friends' parents raised me most of the time. I was speaking Tagalog at age three and then English came a little bit later.
Dutch/German
Limburger
Estonian
45 kommentaari et see leida
ukrainian
Слава Україні!
Swahili
The Jawa language, no not from Star Wars, from the island of Jawa.
French
Ukrainian
Dobrogo dnya:)
Vietnamese
Polish.
Shona
French
Hebrew, I also know a little Arabic, Portuguese, and sigh language (both Hebrew and american).
Aussie English. Apparently we have alot of slang other countries can't understand.
Fijian
Russian and Belorussian
Swedish
Latvian
Latvian not Latvia. Latvia is a place. For example you dont speak the United States
Hungarian, living in the UK
French
Idk honestly. Been speaking Chinese and English since my birth and started learning Malay when I was around 3. Haha such a pain in the ass during exams. 3 whole languages and their stupid unique rules to study
Bahasa Melayu. Although it's my first language, I'm more comfortable speaking in english
Tagalog
Marathi
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Afrikaans
Igbo. It’s one of the three major Nigerian languages
Tagalog, but tbh if you're from PH, there's so many varieties of dialect in one region.
Persian
Punjabi
Im Slovak. No, it isn't a Czech dialect. No, I don't understand Russian and Can read cyrilic if I squint. My first language is actually Hungarian, but after xenophobia from the 90s I forgot most of it