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The BBC decries how awful it is that people in England speak English (archive.is)
posted 5 years ago by UnsubtleAardvark 5 years ago by UnsubtleAardvark +80 / -0
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– Steampunk_Moustache 47 points 5 years ago +47 / -0

She's unable to hold a conversation without turning to English words - an experience she describes as being "colonised by English".

So fucking leave and don't come back.

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– Kweebecker 32 points 5 years ago +32 / -0

Breaking news: England has been colonized by the English.

In related news, France has been found to have been invaded by large numbers of French. This is highly problamatic.

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– Brennus 7 points 5 years ago +7 / -0

When news 1572 years old is breaking ….. 2021 is a weird year to be alive. I would not think about visiting another country without at least a cursory knowledge of how to speak the language…. The extreme entitlement of moving to one and being upset that you have to learn the language baffles me. The English speaking world should really adopt one thing from French culture and that is the absolute demand that if you move to x English speaking country, you better learn the language.

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– SupremeReader 2 points 5 years ago +2 / -0

Both statements are true (France).

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– APDSmith 5 points 5 years ago +5 / -0

Perhaps someone should tell her where English got those words in the first place ...

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– exilde 33 points 5 years ago +33 / -0

"you cannot go to London or Manchester unless you have a slight Indian accent." - Joseph R. Biden

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– FreedomDeliveries 20 points 5 years ago +20 / -0

"you're not British if you have white skin" ~ Biden

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– ChippingToe 12 points 5 years ago +12 / -0

"I learned all about roaches"

  • Biden
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– Arkana 33 points 5 years ago +33 / -0

Maybe if the migrants can't speak English they shouldn't have came to England, but of course the quality of living is so much higher that it's a no brainer for them to come.

As an aside, the BBC pidgin stuff is hilarious. Like they somehow expect people who can barely speak to be able to read this broken english. You can see that their twitter gets zero engagement besides people making fun of it too.

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– DNA1 16 points 5 years ago +16 / -0

Very good expenditure of tax payer money. Top search results all point to BBC Pidgin, for some reason I don't see the Times or other publications doing the same.

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– SophiesBoyfriend 22 points 5 years ago +22 / -0

Meanwhile The BBC is currently busy covering up for the recent muslims attacking whites and declaring their intention to rape other races :

https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/18482

This is the video he is replying to :

https://twitter.com/mahna5g/status/1393939642379120646?s=21

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– IfThatIsWhatYouThink 16 points 5 years ago +16 / -0

It's terrible to have to learn English, in England, the land where both the English language and people came from? I knew Europe was fucked, but how is it no one from there seems to be speaking out against this?

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– Kweebecker 9 points 5 years ago +9 / -0

They would speak out, but, I mean, they don't know the language...

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– Brennus 4 points 5 years ago +4 / -0

Because the state will label it hate speech and throw them into prison.

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– IfThatIsWhatYouThink 2 points 5 years ago +2 / -0

That's a good point that I should've thought of. Must suck to be a native European knowing you're fucked if you do nothing and double fucked if you do anything.

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– SupremeReader 3 points 5 years ago +3 / -0

English language and people came from Germania (Germany and Denmark today) and Normandy.

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– yamez 4 points 5 years ago +4 / -0

Make Britain Brithonic again?

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– Grumman 16 points 5 years ago +16 / -0

Weren't those worthless parasites you call a Conservative party supposed to have defunded the BBC already?

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– deleted 7 points 5 years ago +7 / -0
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– w-duranty6489 4 points 5 years ago +4 / -0

The infection is already within the UKuck with the socialist Labor party.

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– J_Darnley 2 points 5 years ago +2 / -0

That has only been a reality for 5 months. It'll take a while longer for people to rollback things that have been around for much longer.

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– reidj 12 points 5 years ago +12 / -0

Wait, what? Where does it say that? Maybe I missed it, but it seems to me the main idea of the article is how African languages are disappearing as Africans start using English more.

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– deleted 2 points 5 years ago +2 / -0
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– RoulerBleu 8 points 5 years ago +8 / -0

Article is about African countries and young people realizing they threw their indigenous languages in the trash and start regreting it.

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– almond_activator 6 points 5 years ago +6 / -0

Are their indigenous languages as flexible and functional as English?

Sure, the grammar is a mess and the provenance of words is more questionable than a whorehouse daycare, but there's really nothing that can challenge English in terms of pure capability.

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– 1776ReasonsWhy 4 points 5 years ago +4 / -0

This video was linked the other day, and since I enjoy foreign languages as a bit of a hobby I listened to it while I did some laundry, and it was fascinating. The man describes how various African languages were strictly oral for so long that their concepts of higher-level abstract things never developed as a result. They didn't know why you would have a dictionary, for instance. There was a distinct lack of precision in their languages and it showed, and it also shaped their culture permanently.

To answer your question, they are literally not as functional and useful as English is, and there is no argument about it. There isn't a single thing you can say in any African language that you cannot say in English, especially when it comes to abstract concepts like promises, honor, integrity, time, space, and personal relations.

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– Stko 2 points 5 years ago +2 / -0

English isn't the problem. American influences the problem in Africa

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– WinningAnyway 2 points 5 years ago +2 / -0

https://waa.ai/mH17

You are not gonna be disappointed you learned about this.

Recorded in potatovision.

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– Soup_Navy_Admiral 2 points 5 years ago +2 / -0

Africa's lost languages: How English can fuel an identity crisis

Don't worry, I'm sure you'll like Mandarin just fine.

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