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[-] MindSkipperBro12@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago

Thank you for making your life revolve around mine🥰

[-] RobertOwnageJunior@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Halt die Fresse, Bruder.

[-] clb92@feddit.dk 9 points 1 year ago

Nåh, det var da ikke noget problem. Nu skal du bare lære at tale dansk, tak.

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 22 points 1 year ago

There are 10 types of people in the world.

Those who understand binary, and those who don't.

[-] wischi@programming.dev 10 points 1 year ago

And those who understand that this joke works in any base.

[-] static_motion@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago

...and those who didn't expect a ternary joke!

[-] mhswtf@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

That's only 2 types of people, IDIOT!

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well we know which type you are. 🤭

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[-] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Funny but English as a Lingua Franca is a thing. English has become a widely understood international language so its not just used to talk to native English speakers but also as a common language between non-native speakers.

[-] Llewellyn@lemm.ee 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

English as a Lingua Franca

I bet frenchies are so salty about it

[-] SlopppyEngineer@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 year ago

Italians (Latin) and Greeks were salty before them. And the Anglo-Saxons will be salty when Chinese, Indian or an African language becomes the new lingua franca. That's

[-] CurlyMoustache@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

That's what? Talk about a cliff hanger! 😳

[-] Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

Why would the lingua franca change again? No type of Chinese, Indian, nor any African language has even remotely the same spread as English does. I'd wager some proficiency in English exist in a sizeable part of the population in almost every country on earth, same can't be said for most other languages (if any).

[-] SlopppyEngineer@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 year ago

If history is anything to go by, the English speaking world runs into some trouble. Nothing much new comes out in English while somebody else becomes dominant in research and publishes in their language. That's getting picked up in academia and politics and if anyone wants to be up to date, they learn that language. The other language now starts to distribute their movies exposing more people who pick up that language and spreading from there.

Sure, that can take a few generations. It's not like everybody just decided to switch right now

[-] Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The thing is, we can't exactly go by history since we've never been as interconnected as we are now. Intercontinental travel could potentially be seen as "just" a huge step up in transportation compared to the past but the internet has fundamentally changed how we communicate. When it comes to technology and science, English is the de facto standard and it's gonna take something pretty huge to disrupt that.

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[-] A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 18 points 1 year ago
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[-] vreraan@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago

In my country I speak my language because others doesn't speak my dialect.

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[-] June@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago

And I deeply appreciate it.

I learned Spanish in high school, but I never really had the opportunity to use it (grew up in a very insulated community where minorities weren’t exactly celebrated and ‘you’re in America speak English was a common sentiment) and lost it. I can still say ‘your mom smells like cheese when it’su see water’ and a few other things, but any semblance of conversational Spanish is gone.

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[-] eochaid@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

I write simple explanations in english because developers can only write simple instructions in code.

[-] vsis@feddit.cl 13 points 1 year ago

I envy native english speakers. They don't have to waste time learning english.

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[-] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 11 points 1 year ago

I speak (well, mostly write) English because it's the only language that the vast majority of the world knows, including my girlfriend.

Also, I'm a linguaphile and it has more words for me to play with than any other language 😁

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[-] Tixanou@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago
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[-] nearjsss@reddthat.com 11 points 1 year ago

Gringo momento xd

[-] seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 year ago

Esperanto estas la plej bona kaj utila internacia lingvo.

[-] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 year ago

You speak Esperanto because it's the only language nobody knows.

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[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

Sure. But I call it American!

[-] lemmonade@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

in many cases, it's the only language that all participants in the conversation understand, not the only one for each.

but to be honest, if I could exchange my knowledge of my native language with the same amount of experience with something else (e.g. programming, math, etc.) I might take that deal (after moving to a primarily english speaking country of course).

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[-] kool_newt@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

I can speak nested languages

puts "this is english"

[-] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

En dit is waarom VS-Standaardisme zo'n groot probleem is op het internet. Iedereen spreekt Engels, en de Verenigde Staten zijn de grootsten wat betreft het aantal Engelssprekers. En daardoor ontstaat een situatie waardoor de meeste gebruikers worden gezien als Amerikaans tenzij anders vernomen.

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[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

And then the Anglos complain that they don't get the professional opportunities that those who know multiple languages get.

[-] enthusiasticamoeba@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

That's not true; I also speak Dutch!

Anyone want to speak Dutch with me? ...... That's what I thought.

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[-] WeebLife@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Bonjour! Comment allez vous!

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[-] Stinkywinks@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Cause no one uses pig latin anymore. Uckfay hetay olicepay

[-] x4740N@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Well I'm currently learning Japanese but I don't yet know enough words to make a funny comment here

[-] norav@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Posso confermare Si sistema la cravatta

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[-] Alexxxolotl@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

じゃぁねぇ、英語で話したくないならこのようにもできるよ。確か日本語が話せるでしょ? (⁠◠⁠‿⁠・⁠)⁠—⁠☆

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[-] Gadg8eer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago

Dude, I get it, but I don't have anything against you and I'm not demanding you learn English to cater to me.

Please stop assuming I'm racist or selfish for only knowing the language my parents spoke most when I was a baby, I probably could have picked up Spanish from my mom's family but sending a teenager with Asperger's like me to stay with relatives in South America in 2007 like my normal-brained brother did as a foreign exchange student would have been infeasible.

I just want to write speculative fiction in my own language and in return be grateful to people who are willing to learn a trade language, not be told I'm a monster just for speaking only a language that's commonplace, is that too much to ask?

[-] bi_tux@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Sprich Deutsch, du elendiger Englisch sprechender Hurensohn!

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[-] wieson@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

It's not about you personally, more about the education system in some countries versus others.

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