Utterly and unfathomably based and the only thing I’d prefer is if Mandarin phased it out in the future
French and German can suck my dick, useless languages that nobody in the 3rd world should ever learn
French should be deleted overnight from every African country and replaced with English
more POC speaking English increases revolutionary thought as they inevitably get exposed to hypocrisy and tantrums
3rd world citizens speaking English makes 3rd worldist communication, cooperation, and JDPON even remotely possible
POC need to (and inevitably will) colonize the English language and mass vandalize Wiggapedia
Every species name in taxonomy needs to be renamed from english/greek to its actual Indigenous name that’s been in use for 2000+ years, instead of “Parlomantotremius xylospongiumidae”, or some rich brit who had the time to vacation there 150 years ago – WE WILL HAVE 1 BILLION MOUNT DENALIS
English is already heavily influenced, maybe even disproportionately, by Black American culture
English-as-a-global-language is why youtube comments don’t completely suck shit, it’s because Non-White people actually comment on youtube (but not reddit)
Global English-fluency would (and is in the process of) ABSOLUTELY CRUSHING the stranglehold that white anglos have on media and pop culture
A one-world-second-language preserves language diversity because it’s easy to be bilingual, and so languages like Wolof and Pitjantjatjara and Cherokee actually have a shot at surviving as native languages (I’m fluidly bilingual in a non-European language despite being born in the US and never even actively trying to learn it)
It will always be infinitely amusing that people from 3rd world countries speak better English than half the population of actual England, if oi do say so me self
French and German can suck my dick, useless languages that nobody in the 3rd world should ever learn
French should be deleted overnight from every African country and replaced with English
These points are only true because English is the current international language instead of French, German, or whatever. It doesn’t say anything about the quality of English, German or French as languages (if you can speak of such a thing). I hope you realize this instead of regurgitating the “French bad amirite” meme from reddit. I don’t even like French that much, just tired seeing the same joke over and over.
ive been to mauritius recently and they still speak french even though the brits colonized it for a fair bit, i guess languages changing is a bit more complex, i wonder if theres a field of studies on this?
The powers that be recently decided to change the common names of birds to descriptions instead of names. Thick-billed Longspur instead of McCown’s Longspur as one example of the many birds named after confederate fucking generals.
They agreed the names made it hard to identify the actual species based on appearance, plus the amount of species named after terrible racists (Audubon included) was incredibly high.
I’d rather we use the indigenous name for the birds, but removing references to colonizers from their names is a good start.
Utterly and unfathomably based and the only thing I’d prefer is if Mandarin phased it out in the future
French and German can suck my dick, useless languages that nobody in the 3rd world should ever learn
French should be deleted overnight from every African country and replaced with English
more POC speaking English increases revolutionary thought as they inevitably get exposed to
hypocrisy and tantrums
3rd world citizens speaking English makes 3rd worldist communication, cooperation, and JDPON even remotely possible
POC need to (and inevitably will) colonize the English language and mass vandalize Wiggapedia
Every species name in taxonomy needs to be renamed from english/greek to its actual Indigenous name that’s been in use for 2000+ years, instead of “Parlomantotremius xylospongiumidae”, or some rich brit who had the time to vacation there 150 years ago – WE WILL HAVE 1 BILLION MOUNT DENALIS
English is already heavily influenced, maybe even disproportionately, by Black American culture
English-as-a-global-language is why youtube comments don’t completely suck shit, it’s because Non-White people actually comment on youtube (but not reddit)
Global English-fluency would (and is in the process of) ABSOLUTELY CRUSHING the stranglehold that white anglos have on media and pop culture
A one-world-second-language preserves language diversity because it’s easy to be bilingual, and so languages like Wolof and Pitjantjatjara and Cherokee actually have a shot at surviving as native languages (I’m fluidly bilingual in a non-European language despite being born in the US and never even actively trying to learn it)
It will always be infinitely amusing that people from 3rd world countries speak better English than half the population of actual England, if oi do say so me self
These points are only true because English is the current international language instead of French, German, or whatever. It doesn’t say anything about the quality of English, German or French as languages (if you can speak of such a thing). I hope you realize this instead of regurgitating the “French bad amirite” meme from reddit. I don’t even like French that much, just tired seeing the same joke over and over.
ive been to mauritius recently and they still speak french even though the brits colonized it for a fair bit, i guess languages changing is a bit more complex, i wonder if theres a field of studies on this?
Were they previously colonized by the French? Or maybe they switched to French because of their proximity to Madagascar?
If I had to guess, I’d say this is jointly studied by linguists, historians and sociologists
No they were colonized by france and then the brits so french stuck, so they speak french english and mauritius creole.
Don’t care and not our problem
The powers that be recently decided to change the common names of birds to descriptions instead of names. Thick-billed Longspur instead of McCown’s Longspur as one example of the many birds named after confederate fucking generals.
They agreed the names made it hard to identify the actual species based on appearance, plus the amount of species named after terrible racists (Audubon included) was incredibly high.
I’d rather we use the indigenous name for the birds, but removing references to colonizers from their names is a good start.
Chinese is a stupid language, if English gets phased out it needs to be replaced by something with an actual alphabet
nah I think it’s fine if ur bigbrained enough