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[–] 298 points 8 months ago (13 children)

Its "I only speak english and bad english" you uncultured fuck

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  • [–] 58 points 8 months ago (10 children)
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  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    You mean, wash-your-sister-sauce?!

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  • [–] 88 points 8 months ago (9 children)

    I wonder what his mom thinks of him turning into such a huge douchey asshole.

    Is she surprised, or did she see it coming? Maybe he's always been so. He's the kid who made new rules for games and cried when the other kids wouldn't follow his rules.

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  • [–] 96 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    “You are an abuser of women – that is the ugly truth and I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around, and uses women for his own power and ego,” Penelope Hegseth wrote in the email obtained by the New York Times.

    “You are that man (and have been for years) and as your mother, it pains me and embarrasses me to say that, but it is the sad, sad truth,” she added, advising her son to “get some help and take an honest look at yourself”.

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/30/trump-defense-secretary-pick-pete-hegseth-mother-abuser-of-women

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  • [–] 47 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Hegseth's father was a basketball coach for high schools across Minnesota before retiring in 2019; his mother is an executive business coach who has taught with the Minnesota Excellence in Public Service (MEPS) Series, a fellowship and leadership program for Republican and center-right women.

    She'd probably say "You've always been a disappointment to this family. You should've gone to war with Iran last year."

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  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago

    Depends on whether she's opining privately or publicly.

    Privately she's said some pretty awful things about him that are absolutely deserved. But in public, she recanted and lined up behind him, which is really disappointing. She could have been helpful to stopping his appointment but now she's party not only to murders happening globally, but the deaths of American reservists who shouldn't be at war in the first place.

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  • [–] 80 points 8 months ago (10 children)

    So Simplified English instead of Traditional English, right?

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  • [–] 30 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    Honestly, the way they're speaking. I'm fine with them calling it "american".

    It gives the rest of us a heads up that we should use small words so they can understand.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Or use big words when we don't want them to understand.

    Not sure if this is common knowledge among English speaking countries, but we in non English speaking countries use English when we don't want our small kids to understand what we're saying. 🫣

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    ... until they start to understand and begin messing with you in return.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    I think we'll be able to tell when they do. Guess that's a good time to start learning sign language lol.

    Joking aside, I've come to understand that speaking a language in front of your kids that they can't understand isn't really a nice thing to do. Makes them feel excluded, and isn't really cool to do to an adult so shouldn't be cool to do to a child either.

    Better to talk openly or just wait until you're alone. 👍 For all the parents out there.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

    Honestly, the way they’re speaking. I’m fine with them calling it “american”.

    I'm not a native English speaker, but I've always been confused by breaking up sentences like this. My understanding is that if one sentence doesn't make senses on its own, it shouldn't be standalone, but rather an introductory to the other one.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    looks like a punctuation error to me. I would have written it this way:

    Honestly—the way they’re speaking—I’m fine with them calling it ‘“american.”

    You could separate the interjection with commas or parentheses too. the em dashes give some extra emphasis, while commas make it blend in a bit better.

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  • [–] 73 points 8 months ago (12 children)

    Literally the Colbert Effect in action.

    This guy wants to be the parody of an idiot.

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  • [–] 24 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    He just wants to appeal to the collection of people who do like that sort of thing being said.

    I remember an incident a bit back where the White House Press Secretary said "your mom" to a journalist's question, followed up by Trump's communications director saying the same thing. Those are not people who are going to let that idly slip, much less at the same time


    their full-time job is using speech to politically influence people.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/karoline-leavitt-trump-putin-meeting-budapest-b2847669.html

    Trump announced Thursday that he will soon meet with Putin in Budapest, Hungary, to discuss an end to the war in Ukraine. The choice has raised questions, because Putin is wanted by the International Criminal Court. However, Hungary appears unlikely to cooperate with the warrant and is in the process of leaving the court, the Associated Press reports.

    When HuffPost asked the White House who chose the location for the meeting, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt replied, “Your mom did.” White House Communications Director Steven Cheung also followed up with, “Your mom,” the outlet reports.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

    I mean, it's politicking.

    There is a segment of the population that considers Trump to sound authentic, not pretentious, academic, or egg-heady. He sounds like the people they talk to.

    What I'm less concerned about is Trump in particular doing it and more about it becoming the new norm. If politicians decide that it works, the world might see a lot more insults, dishonesty, and such.

    My hope was "Trump leaves office, this gets toned down". But...it might not. And it might spread to other places, if they find that it works in the US.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/09/democrats-tone-cursing-casual-trump/

    Democrats try a new tone: Less scripted, more cursing, Trumpier insults

    Party leaders are swearing more, recording more direct-to-camera videos and trying to project an authenticity many voters have come to associate with Trump.

    There are gentler forms of this. For example, I remember an interview with a senior British translator (this was pre-Brexit) working at the European Commission who said that they'd made a conscious decision not to codify an "EU English", because they were concerned about the political impact of European Union politicians sounding different from the public


    more distant, elite. "Sound like the people who you want votes from" isn't new. But...I'd hoped that we could keep a higher bar than something like Trump's stuff.

    But, well, we live in a new era in terms of media, where social media is how a lot of people communicate. It's gonna have effects. Fifty years from now, I suppose we'll see what norms have been established.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    When HuffPost asked the White House who chose the location for the meeting, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt replied, “Your mom did.”

    I'm torn by this. On one hand she's despicable, on the other hand such a well delivered, completely unexpected "your mom" really gets me.

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  • [–] 23 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Colbert was the funniest conservative comedian but I stopped liking him after he switched parties.

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  • [–] 21 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

    I’m not sure if this is a joke or if you actually think he was a conservative on the Colbert show

    Edit: oh wait it’s you, you got me

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  • [–] 234 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    And nazi, he speaks nazi too. That sieg heil in the photo didn't happen by coincidence.

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  • [–] 114 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    It's an accurate snapshot of the American executive branch right now... the moron MAGA President asleep at the wheel, the moron MAGA underlings putting on full display their idiotic rendition of fascism.

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  • [–] 149 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (24 children)

    Sabes cómo se llama uno que habla tres idiomas? Trilingüe.

    Sabes cómo se llama uno que habla dos? Bilingüe.

    Sabes como se llama uno que habla un sólo idioma? Americano. Se llama americano.

    This fucking moron made himself the punchline of the joke that we invented to mock those like him.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (18 children)

    Why is there a ü in the answers?

    Edit: Thanks for explaining everyone. I have no idea how I missed that my whole life. I had no idea. It could be because I'm in Western Hemisphere but not sure.

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  • [–] 38 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (9 children)

    Because that's how it's spelled.

    Spanish uses ü, although relatively rarely. It signifies that you should pronounce the u and not merge it into nearby vowels.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    English does the same with most vowels, it's called diaeresis though the only place I commonly see it is in the New Yorker (funnily enough googling what it is called led me to a New Yorker article about it.

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  • [–] 14 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    I mean at this point it seems that English doesn't do this, but maybe at one point it saw limited use.

    Except "naïve", that still happens. But English is nothing if not wildly inconsistent.

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago

    Fair enough point, I also see it in normal English usage for proper nouns but basically nowhere else.

    Wikipedia agrees with you (and also calls out the New Yorker vehemently disagrees which I find oddly comforting and hilarious)

    In British English this usage has been considered obsolete for many years, and in US English, although it persisted for longer, it is now considered archaic as well.[3] Nevertheless, it is still used by the US magazine The New Yorker.[4]

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    @bdonvr@thelemmy.club explained it very well in their comment. To add, in Spanish, the letter "g" when followed by either an "i" or an "e" will be pronounced in three different ways depending on whether you add an "u" in between, and if that "u" has a diaeresis on it. If you add the dieresis, it means you have to pronounce the "u". Think of "pingüino" (penguin in english). In order to say the "u" in the word, we add the diaeresis that says the reader that they have to say the "u". In Spanish, "guillotina", "pingüino" and "ginebra" you will read the sillabe with a "g" and an "i" differently on each of those words.

    Spanish has tons of grammar rules. It's hard to learn them all, but when you do, it makes extremely easy to know how to say a word when you read it. Even where to put the accent (even if there is no tilde in the word).

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    Spanish orthography (which is not really grammar) is still very simple and logical compared to the mess we have in English, where spelling was largely frozen before the Great Vowel Shift happened. It was a perfectly decent West Germanic language until Norman French forced itself onto Anglo-Saxon and left us with a weird mish-mash of Germanic and Romance features.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    Because that changes how it is pronounced

    Let's say- Penguin

    In spanish it is Pingüino

    "Pingüino" is pronounced "pinguino" ("gui" just like in english)

    While "pinguino" would be something like "pingeeno"

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    i don't speak/read/write Spanish..... i do speak two other languages that are not English, and i am not a fucking idiot, therefore, i can read text in a foreign language, and still get the joke.

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  • [–] 50 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    "I only speak one language"... to a room full of mostly bilingual people who also live in (central or south) America. 🤦🤦🤦

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  • [–] 24 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    They should only speak Spanish to him just to piss him off.

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  • [–] 49 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    "Don't worry: We will make sure to use only small words for you"

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  • [–] 42 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    A bullet in each of their brains would be too kind.

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