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tumblr post by seokoilua: it’s so wild to me that some people just speak english all the time… like they can’t switch it off to speak in a #real language when they need to
tumblr post by seokoilua: it’s so wild to me that some people just speak english all the time… like they can’t switch it off to speak in a #real language when they need to
I grew up knowing the most popular language, why would I learn some backwater dump of a language like french only spoken by like 3.8% of humans unless I’m going to go live there or in one of the places they fucked over? Mandarin I could get, same with Spanish just due to total surface area and the best Venn diagram result. But there are so many little languages in the world and humans have finite time to live.
because, if nothing else, it would make your English better
when you learn more about a language that influenced “your language”, those borrowed words open up and gain more meaning. You master their intricacies and start using them with more tact
That makes some, but not a lot, of sense. You obviously don’t need to learn another language to learn more about your own, you can just learn your own more directly.
Besides, the German part of English is way better anyway.
There’s no shame in admitting you won’t learn a second language because you don’t have time or don’t want to.
Now calling French “some backwater dump of a language” when it has had such an immense cultural impact worldwide (including in the “most popular language”) just sounds silly.
Also, it’s okay to learn one of these “little languages” for fun. Not everything in life needs to be practical and/or min-mixed for ultimate efficiency.
I thought I did say that? Why would there be shame?
For the rest, yeah, I wanted to make fun of french. I don’t really see an issue with that either. The french seem to take their language way too seriously, and it’s fun to take them down a peg from time to time. They may have been historically relevant through a series of accidents but they aren’t that relevant today. Its kinda funny that their relevance is mostly through their historical rival taking over the planet.
At least in my life there’s always been a “why don’t these fucking Americans learn my language” vibe coming from Europe. The reason is most of the European languages are completely irrelevant and too small to matter. It’s fine to acknowledge that, just as it’s fine to learn one if you want to.