• YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today
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      4 months ago

      This reminds me of the time I saw a slab car in South Florida that made their own giant car nuts with soccer balls. You could see the hexagons through the epoxy and paint.

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    These people are all sociopaths, so they have no idea how to behave and speak normally. They think they know what to say so that we’ll never guess how weird they really are, but they’re STUPID, too, so they really don’t understand, and end up saying all sorts of inappropriate nonsense.

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      4 months ago

      My uncle had a relationship with a Dene woman. I had no idea that language family was so widespread! Fascinating.

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      4 months ago

      California has SO MANY languages

      Is that because indigenous people also realized it’s the best part of America (half joking, mostly not joking), or because of Spanish colonization somehow?

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        It’s actually down to two reasons. Firstly California is probably the first part of North America to see continuous permanent settlement by humans, possibly including Non-Sapien genus Homo but that’s still up for debate. Mostly because everything further north was a frozen shithole on par with Svalbard.

        Secondly the various tribes of the West and especially in California were able to actually recover somewhat from the wave of plague the Spannish unleashed. Mostly because between the Sonora, Mojave, and Great Basin it meant that it took centuries for Europeans to get into California. Though the Russians may have been fucking around Oregon if a rather well traveled Native American from out east is to be believed. Sorry I can’t remember the dudes name or his tribe I think he was from Arkansas.

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      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.

      • Victor@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        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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            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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        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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          4 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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    Should assign an interpreter to him that can “translate” his real meanings for them