this post was submitted on 16 Jan 2026
474 points (99.6% liked)

Microblog Memes

10121 readers
1743 users here now

A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

Rules:

  1. Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
  2. Be nice.
  3. No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
  4. Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.

Related communities:

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 2 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

no, because you should say the word in your native language anyways.

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 5 points 13 hours ago

you have missed the point. you don't need to know any other languages to use this approach.

[–] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 1 points 13 hours ago (2 children)
[–] EldenLord@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago

Prayers going out to all the people without a native language 🕊️🙏

[–] A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 0 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

what??

how would that work???, living alone in the jungle until adulthood and only then learning?

or is a shit americans say kind of thing?

[–] kazerniel@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

not sure what OP meant, but it reminded me of the forced assimilation of peoples in a colonial setting, where a potential scenario is that

  • the grandparents speak their native language fluently, and the dominating language almost not at all
  • the parents speak both the native and the dominating language, but badly
  • the kids speak the dominating language fluently, and the native language almost not at all

So in that case the parents can be seen as not having a proper native language, because they have two languages they can sorta make work, but can't fully express nuance and complex thought in either.