r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Upstairs_Cash8400 • 2d ago

English for Beginners

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u/Soulborg87 2d ago

The English language is 3 languages in a trench coat with a fake ID

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u/dabunny21689 2d ago

Beating up other languages in dark alleys and rifling through their pockets for loose grammar.

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u/Supertho 1d ago

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u/stillerStieglitz 1d ago

I don't

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u/khalcyon2011 1d ago

I've just heard that as a joke making the rounds of the interwebs for the last few years.

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u/iusecactusesasdildos 2d ago

Someone needs to give both these comments an award that was hilarious

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u/CaptainKatnip 1d ago

These both quotes are over 15 years old.

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u/talebtb111 1d ago

I knew I've read this before! Thanks for confirming.

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u/Moofy_Poops 2d ago

🤣🤣🤣

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u/Greatlarrybird33 2d ago

Nothing like having a Bunch of Belgians, working for a German, ruled by Frenchmen who operated the first printing presses in England, basically deciding how to spell English words on the fly.

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u/townmorron 2d ago

And one wealthy guy deciding Grammer so the wealthy didn't sound like the poors

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u/stillerStieglitz 1d ago

Is there any background on the last 2 comments that I should read about, or watch on YouTube?

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u/DeepTakeGuitar 1d ago

You leave Kelsey Grammer out of this!

[You meant grammar*]

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u/townmorron 1d ago

The ol salad tosser himself has it coming

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u/ManWhoIsDrunk 1d ago

Grammar

Ftfy

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u/townmorron 1d ago

Eh on a phone and not super invested. But ok

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u/FingerSlamGrandpa 1d ago

After watching his videos I genuinely don't understand how I learned English.

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u/WittyBonkah 1d ago

Same. My brother once told me I hadn’t made my first coherent sentence until I turned 8. I don’t feel bad about it anymore.

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u/H4mp0 1d ago

Snap.

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u/blewawei 1d ago

Because you learnt to speak it before you learnt to write it

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u/Traditional-Handle83 1d ago

Yea but then I look at other languages and the sounds stay the same or only changes with the letter change..... English doesn't. Hell you even have that lead lead lead issue in English that other languages just use different words for altogether.

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u/Gren57 1d ago

Because you have a good memory. Seems like most of the English language is pure memorization, not lojik, at leest four mee it iz.

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u/Gadi-susheel 2d ago

an English literarian told me that back in 16-17th century people used to look down on those who speak English and spanish, latin, french were well recognized languages.

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u/Demostravius4 1d ago

What did the Spaniards do to be lumped in with English?

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u/saumanahaii 1d ago

So if you speak any of those languages it tricks you I to believing you're a third of the way there.

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u/xplosm 1d ago

It's Norse, French, Latin and some Germanic languages sprinkled here and there (heeeer and theeeeer?)

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u/samwan405 1d ago

Arguably more...

"Same same", "cool cool" - Korean-English

"Long time no see" - Chinese-English

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u/Snake10133 1d ago

While drunk

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u/blewawei 1d ago

Not this shite again

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u/AltruisticSalamander 19h ago

I've heard the grammar also may have come from briton because it's unlike other germanic languages but is like gaelic