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Post by abbey1227 on Feb 9, 2024 16:54:10 GMT
And what would you rate her on a standard 1-10 scale?
ahhh!
The REAL meat of the matter
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Post by uncreative on Feb 9, 2024 17:00:48 GMT
Catman understands many phrases in felinesese. I used to have a cat that made different meows for when he was hungry, thirsty, bored, wanted attention, or wanted to go for a walk.
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Post by thekindercarebear on Feb 9, 2024 20:46:41 GMT
Are you biting your thumb at me, sir?
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Post by jackspicer on Feb 9, 2024 20:51:53 GMT
Thinking on it, how many Italian Americans speak Italian? Same with Greeks, Germans, etc. After 3 or 4 generations, it's just kind of lost for most of us. It definitely gets lost. My grandmother 'understood' Italian, since her parents were from Italy, but she didn't really 'speak' it herself.
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Post by merh on Feb 9, 2024 23:53:52 GMT
I am at a bubble tea shop and the cute chinese woman at the counter, after taking my order, started to coverse with me in Mamdarin. I don't speak mandarin anyway so in my case, it is moot but I do wonder if fresh off the boat chinapeople find it weird a lot, if not most, Chinese Americans don't speak the old tongues anymore. Thinking on it, how many Italian Americans speak Italian? Same with Greeks, Germans, etc. After 3 or 4 generations, it's just kind of lost for most of us. At 2:30
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Post by ofunknownorigins on Feb 10, 2024 0:23:27 GMT
I remember meeting a dirty, filthy Mick in Chicago spouting Mickese (Irish Celtic) to show off. He asked me my last name and when I told him he said, āSee, Ireland owns this country.ā Then he spouted some Mickese at me and laughed when I didnāt know what he meant. I politely told him Iām descended from the people who refused to kneel down and suck British cock to survive the way his relatives did. He wasnāt happy after that.
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Post by ShadowSouL Likes This on Feb 10, 2024 9:21:06 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2024 9:30:43 GMT
Italians will understand if you use this hand gesture:
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Post by Toxicalicity on Feb 10, 2024 9:32:01 GMT
I'm an American living overseas and I'm now hearing and speaking MORE English than I did before, lol.
Well, that's not true. But still, my native tongue is in no danger of slipping away completely, although I have - both ironically and unironically - adopted some of the more mangled phrases and pronunciations.
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Post by ShadowSouL Likes This on Feb 10, 2024 9:35:39 GMT
What's a matter wit you?
Meats a balls a!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2024 9:39:39 GMT
I'm an American living overseas and I'm now hearing and speaking MORE English than I did before, lol. Well, that's not true. But still, my native tongue is in no danger of slipping away completely, although I have - both ironically and unironically - adopted some of the more mangled phrases and pronunciations. Less Spanish or? Where do you live now?
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Post by Power Ranger on Feb 10, 2024 9:41:35 GMT
Fat brainless Americans are too busy playing eggball.
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Post by Hnefahogg on Feb 10, 2024 10:07:45 GMT
I'm an American living overseas and I'm now hearing and speaking MORE English than I did before, lol. Well, that's not true. But still, my native tongue is in no danger of slipping away completely, although I have - both ironically and unironically - adopted some of the more mangled phrases and pronunciations. When native English-speaking people go abroad and try to learn a new language, they often get this problem that when they want to practice it with the locals, the locals instead want to speak and practice their English with them.
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Post by Nogbad on Feb 10, 2024 15:03:04 GMT
I remember meeting a dirty, filthy Mick in Chicago spouting Mickese (Irish Celtic) to show off. He asked me my last name and when I told him he said, āSee, Ireland owns this country.ā Then he spouted some Mickese at me and laughed when I didnāt know what he meant. I politely told him Iām descended from the people who refused to kneel down and suck British cock to survive the way his relatives did. He wasnāt happy after that. This guy sounds like a prize twat, clearly, but I tend towards the opposite view ie Irish-Americans scuttled off elsewhere for slightly better fed near-serfdom rather than staying to fight for independence from the Brits. I feel the same about the Scots' "diaspora", as espoused by that monotonous, monomaniac gobshite Tam Devine, who winds me up more than Niall Ferguson and Douglas Murray combined.
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Post by PaulsLaugh on Feb 10, 2024 15:14:02 GMT
My small Southern town, we had one Chinese American family: the Jungs. The kids were born there so grew up speaking with a Deep South accent. They owned several businesses, one of them belng the only Chinese restaurant in town. The owner, New Moon Jung, would sometimes work the front, and when folks who didnāt know him would hear him speak, they were amazed he sounded just like Andy Griffith.
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