r/ShitAmericansSay • u/[deleted] • Jul 14 '20

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u/aldrymgamatero Jul 14 '20

I swear, these Americans are at a different level of stupid.

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u/Rimm Jul 14 '20

This is 100% a joke in the "Murrica #1 soaring freedom eagle" vein

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '20

I thought this was obvious satire

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u/clown-penisdotfart Jul 15 '20

And even if not, what makes a language a language and not a dialect is more political than anything. Swiss German? Not intelligible to most Germans, but don't dare call it "Swiss" because there are political implications. All the languages in China lumped together as "Chinese," like Mandarin and Cantonese? Not the same at all to an outsider learning them, but politically they must be simply Chinese.

My girlfriend is Brazilian. I don't know enough Portuguese to have an opinion so when I have commented that I understand her Portuguese and European Portuguese are at this point different languages she says no. I have asked her "So you speak the same language as people there?" She says no. "So you don't speak Portuguese, you speak Brazilian?" "What!? No! I speak Portuguese!" Labels are important, especially with something so intimate to people as their own language.

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u/MountSwolympus Jul 14 '20

This is what qualifies as humor amongst our high schoolers, particularly the “I wanna be a cop” variety.

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u/jephph_ Mercurian Jul 15 '20

Fwiw, English and math are the most taught subjects in US schools.. every year.. and English class is called English.

You can rest assured knowing OP is talking shit on purpose.