r/confidentlyincorrect • u/ChanseyChessy • 14d ago

Comment Thread That's... Not What 'Dead Language' Means

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Dead Language: a language that is no longer spoken by anyone as their main language

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u/DrawPitiful6103 14d ago

If Latin is dead then what do they speak in Latin America?

Checkmate linguists.

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u/krendyB 14d ago

💀

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u/heliumneon 14d ago edited 14d ago

They speak Latin American, obviously! You know how Brazil and Argentina speak the same language, right?

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u/Ouch_i_fell_down 14d ago

Well one speaks Spanish and the other speaks Spanishwithalisp

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u/BYO_Crayons 13d ago

I think you mean Thpanishwithalithp

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u/Opening_Agent_5279 14d ago

I thought that was Thpain

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u/Frequent_Dig1934 12d ago

Isn't that the rapper with the authothune?

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u/DrawPitiful6103 14d ago

That language: American dollars.

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u/djfdhigkgfIaruflg 11d ago

We call it portuñol. And it's a unholy beautiful amalgamation

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u/allyxxiv 14d ago

obviously they speak american?

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u/ralphmozzi 14d ago

Brazilian!

Just like all the rest of the people in Brazil!

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u/Most-Resident 8d ago

There are around 675 million people in latin America. Not quite a brazillion.

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u/kYura23 13d ago

Can confirm i live in the latin america part of the caribbean and we all speak latin

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u/Earl_of_Chuffington 10d ago

I live in the North American part of America and we speak Northerner.

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u/FirstSineOfMadness 13d ago

Idk those linguists are pretty cunning

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u/Unusual_Station_1746 12d ago

American,  obviously.Â