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[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 48 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The brits no longer get to claim the English language.

[–] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

sketti and meatballs

Neither do the yanks!

[–] lenuup@reddthat.com 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

as the only ones capable of proper English, the English language is passed on to the Dutch.

[–] J92@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The might as well take English. They just sound drunk when they speak their own language.

(To Germans...apparently)

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago

That one was always weird to me as a native German speaker. Dutch has very prominent sounds (mostly the G) that aren't really present in standard German or English that remind me much more of sore throat or coughing than being drunk.

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)
  1. That's redneck speak, not Yankee speak. Yanks say things like "fuggetabout it", and "Hey! I'm wolkin' 'ere!"
  2. Rednecks are mostly confined to the South-Eastern part of the country. Yanks are in the Northeast. Most Americans are neither Yanks nor Rednecks.
[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yep. We're 50 countries in a trench coat. We have about a dozen dialects, many occasionally incomprehensible to others. My favorite example of this is "finnabouttabe."

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 5 points 1 week ago

The English language itself is like nine languages in a trench coat. It's mainly German/Dutch & French, with some sprinkling of Latin and various other romantic languages.

[–] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

And most Brits are not chavs or MadLads, yet this post exists.

[–] BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 week ago

Spaghetti is an Italian word, so it's fine!