I swear every single time someone mentions language or doesn't explicitly say where they're from someone will fight you saying that you only know one language and one culture and you can't possibly know anything else lol

[–] CheesyFox@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

well there are some stereotypes about americans, and there are also lots of people in the world that don't know any languages other than their native ones, so I guess I can see where it's coming from.

[–] kattenluik@feddit.nl 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm more referring to where you say you obviously know more than just English, and someone tries to fight you about it. That only comes from bad intentions.

[–] CheesyFox@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Whatever you call it, but to me it seems simply as a rather not so funny, but still a joke without any implied hostility. People are not as malicious as you think, untill it's the matter of politics of course.

[–] PsychologicalCannabis@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Thanks for understanding it was actually just a joke.

[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.de 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

untill it's the matter of politics of course.

DID YOU JUST SAID THAT YOU DISAGREE WITH MY POLITICAL VIEW???????

[–] TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The problem is that speaking different languages is not even remotely the same thing as knowing anything about linguistics. People have no idea of how little they actually know about the use of language.

[–] kattenluik@feddit.nl 1 points 10 months ago

I'm honestly not sure about how people would go about learning a language without getting so involved that you inevitably catch all of that, I've never thought about it.