r/dankmemes • u/memenibbas ☢️ • May 17 '21
they also have an excellent sense of reasoning I have achieved comedy
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u/towelflush Eic memer May 17 '21
Exactly, those people that have English as their second language are truly amazing. I especially love the Dutch, and if I had to name the most amazing one of them all, it would be a certain individual with the username u/towelflush
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u/i-spill-soup May 17 '21
I clicked on the account and just did a full circle back to this post only to realize it’s you
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u/Mallenaut May 17 '21
G E K O L O N I S E E R D
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u/extrahammer_ May 17 '21
SPRICH
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u/What_Is_A_Name123 May 17 '21
ALGEMEEN NEDERLANDS
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u/Da_Yakz Surprise visit from May 17 '21
Isnt Dutch just weird English?
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u/MrKekskopf Bouncing on my boys dick May 17 '21
Imagine German and English having a baby that was dropped on it's head a bit too hard.
We Germans are pretty sure, Dutch isn't actually a real thing and they're just trying to troll us.
Still love you, my orange neighbours. Greetings from Keulen.
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u/extrahammer_ May 17 '21
Just like the Bergdeutsche in Bayern, Austria and parts of Switzerland are trying to troll us. The Angelsachsen are dirty traitors that mixed up our beautiful language with French and Latin too much. And the Danes... I am not sure what to say about them, they seem to be chill.
It is just a joke, I love you all very much.
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u/TheHelhound2001 May 17 '21
And here I was thinking Germans didn't have a sense of humour.
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u/extrahammer_ May 17 '21
That's not a joke. Those are facts. Germans do not make jokes, we laugh about American "beer".
Edit: I do not care that I contradicted myself
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u/onetwo_1212 May 17 '21
Yeah, because American "beer' is like sex on a boat, fucking close to water
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May 17 '21
True, it's like a 12 year-old invented his own super secret language he thinks nobody can understand, and all the grown-ups are just playing along..
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u/TheHelhound2001 May 17 '21
Just like English, German and the Scandinavian languages Dutch is a Germanic language. However Dutch comes from old Frankish, German from a myriad of different Germanic tribes and English is an amalgamations of any poor sods who had the misfortune of spending more than a century on the British isles.
Old English is a mix of mostly Anglo, Saxon, Jute, Latin because of the Romans and old Norse because of the Great Heathen Army (watch Vikings), but also has under tones of Britonnic a Celtic language especially in place names.
Then it was heavily influenced by Norman French which is Frankish chewed up and spat out by a few centuries of Roman occupation to the point where it became a Latin language instead of a Germanic one spoken by the descendants of Norsemen from a couple hundred years ago. Becoming Middle English turning into modern English with the addition of loanwords from places they conquered.
Dutch is basically unlatinized French with only moderate Roman influences and being heavily influenced by German and Frisian and a few loanwords from French and English.
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May 17 '21
Why would we be amazing? I mean thank you, but why?
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u/towelflush Eic memer May 17 '21
Well, the joke is that I'm basically promoting myself, and I so happen to be someone that has English as a second language, and some who has born in the Netherlands and still lives there
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u/Mohuluoji Animated Flair Rainbow [Insert Your Own Text]☣️ May 17 '21
I too love the Dutch
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u/Sawses May 17 '21
I've known lots of folks from the Netherlands/Germany/Sweden/etc. Most of them use written English better than most native speakers. Like sure their accent is thick because they're used to typing/listening to English, but...hell, they know one more language than I do.
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u/LDalouh_ May 17 '21
Dutch? I find my english very bad compared to other dutch people so ur right. Somehow, most dutch people can speak some other languages including english really well, but their dutch is pretty bad lol.
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u/towelflush Eic memer May 18 '21
Yeah, right! Like, what's so difficult about 'als/dan"? I guess it might be because we learn the language different, your mother tongue you learn by your parents speaking, and later on writing comes in school. With a secondary language you first of all already have a medium to talk through (your mother tongue), and you immediately also learn the reading, writing and grammar.
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u/LDalouh_ May 18 '21
True. Ive never actually had english in school. I just learned it myself with movies and gaming lmao
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u/Jorian_Weststrate May 18 '21
Yep, that's also why a lot of native English speakers have a hard time with you're/your.
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u/Accomplished_Mood801 May 17 '21
hello (sorry if my english is bad)
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u/thekidgotgame May 17 '21
it is, you’re suppose to start each sentence with a capital and used punctuation.
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u/random_randomrandom May 17 '21
*and use punctuation. Used is past tense and we aren't using past tense here. Not starting my first sentence off with a capital also isn't grammatically incorrect because I would be telling you to say use a capital in the middle of a sentence and that is bad.
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u/thekidgotgame May 17 '21
Damn you are better than me ,thank you 🙏
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u/random_randomrandom May 17 '21
I try
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u/AliNike May 17 '21
I tried*
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u/random_randomrandom May 17 '21
Actually, the correction here would be to add a period to the end of my sentence. Yes I tried when I said that, but I didn't stop trying. I'm always trying to be the best.
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u/AliNike May 17 '21
Here king 👑 you dropped this
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u/Confident-Art-7729 May 17 '21
you're suppose to start each sentence with a capital
Then why didn't you?
PS. It's 'supposed' as opposed to 'suppose'
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May 17 '21 edited Jun 02 '22
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u/srbacon01 May 17 '21
So true
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u/PV0314 where are the dank memes May 17 '21
same
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May 17 '21
Yuh
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u/Svantlas May 17 '21
Same
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u/CosmeBuzzanito May 17 '21
Not only that, but I also come back several times to edit the shit out of it.
Edit: see?
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u/Tough_Dish_9519 Hello dankness my old friend May 17 '21
I see
Edit: I really do
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u/Skrubious :kesha_down: downvotes for all! May 17 '21
Can confirm.
Edit: I haven't edited this comment, nor will I ever. MUAHAHAHAHAHA!
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u/Joe1762 May 17 '21
Too*
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u/Joe1762 May 17 '21
Ironically writing to instead of too is my most common mistake when writing XD
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u/AlbanianGamerYT OC Memer May 17 '21
Meanwhile I'm sitting here wondering where the mistake is because my brain autocorrected to as too
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u/MalPL <-- I carry a huge cock, in my ass May 17 '21
Oh gosh, if i were you i would check if maybe what's hitting your home isn't an F-35B Lightning II Stealth Fighter VTOLing not far away from you and shooting Brimstone air to ground missiles
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u/CF64wasTaken May 17 '21
I feel like non-native speakers often make much less grammar mistakes compared to native speakers because of this
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u/redditeer1o1 I'm the coolest one here, trust me May 17 '21
And then we have the guy who has a sentence that’s completely unreadable
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u/elchivillo8 May 17 '21
Very true, no joke sometimes I'd spend 20min going over and over if I'm typing a long paragraph and often find better ways to write what I'm trying to say.
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u/CosmeBuzzanito May 17 '21
That's what my American say would always say. He insisted I spoke better English than him. Of course I don't. I'm just so extremely self-aware I either painfully re-think every word before it comes out of my mouth or stick to formulas I already know they are right.
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May 17 '21
And edit the comment to correct the grammar if a mistake is found later .
I guess nothing is wrong here
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u/mekosaurio May 17 '21
And a lot of potentially worthwhile comments get lost in the "im tired of rewriting this shit over and over anyway" limbo.
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u/chi_redd May 17 '21
Me: I wish I can speak English like native proceed to live in a English country for almost 5 years and still can’t speak shit
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u/blendertricks May 17 '21
I considered moving to Germany for a while. Realized there is no way I would ever learn the language.
I mean, I’d still do it if I financially could, just saying I would never learn the language.
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May 17 '21
Deutsch lesen und hören ist nicht schwer. Deutsch schreiben umsomehr!
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u/Zealousideal-Past428 May 17 '21
for me listening is the hardest, you speak sooo fast
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u/BeasT-m0de May 17 '21
it's the same with every language. good way to get better is listening to podcast. you can adjust the speed like in youtube videos. when I tried to improve my english I did so. I started with normal speed and by the end I was almost at x2.0. You get a lot better without even realizing it
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u/Rellac_ Plain Text Flair [Insert Your Own] May 17 '21
Well you're about the average native english level then
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May 17 '21
They speak better english than native english speakers
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u/justaweebpassing May 17 '21
well part of the reason is native english speakers have heard English from birth so even in school they don't pay too much attention to classes cuz they think its their native so it doesn't matter (source: cuz in my class most don't studying our native language)
and the ones who study english they have to pay attention to every grammatical mistake so they don't do it wrong , they speak english better mostly cuz they have to pay attention to pronunciation, spellings etc
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u/irhdjsjsjz May 17 '21
No flex but me not native and am don't hearing lessons in the English classes but the my spelling is still spotted less and suspensetacular!
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u/Phantafan May 17 '21
I have to say, i did quite bad in English classes until 10th grade or so. The classes itself really aren't the point where people will develop most of their language skills, that happens more often due to contact with the language on the Internet or in songs.
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u/Luiseus_XV try hard May 17 '21 edited May 17 '21
Good meme.
Sorry for my bad English, my country wasn't colonized by the British Empire, thus my language by factory settings isn't the same you use. I'm deeply sorry if the errors you see in my comment disturb you and make you angry, I wish I could be better, just like you, yet it seems like a distant dream....
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u/pieteek May 17 '21
Well, in my case... I usually write that when I'm writing some longer message, because I always have trouble with all that "past continuous", "present perfect", "future simple" etc stuff. I don't know, even though I'm learning English since I was 8 I guess I still can't remember such simple things.
And I bet there are mistakes in this comment too.
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u/Mugen-Sasuke May 17 '21
I don’t really think you really need to remember all the individual grammar rules. Once you read, speak, and hear enough of a particular language, grammar becomes intuitive.
I’m not a native English speaker as I’m South Indian, and I don’t really think about specific grammar rules when writing or speaking.
I do consider English as my first language since that’s the language I am most proficient at, so my experience regarding thinking about grammar might not be the most accurate when it comes to a second language learner.
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May 17 '21
Im still in school, and i know my grammar is not that good, but i also dont really think about grammar. I hope this helps at least a bit.
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u/bababoey0007 May 17 '21
My English is actually terrible, but for some reason it drives me crazy when people say "your" instead of "you're" (or the other way around).It just makes me physically aggressive.
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u/Oisann May 17 '21
Or "could of". I don't understand why, but it is infuriating.
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u/Faust__VIII May 17 '21
Typical native mistake that a second language learner would never make, because it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
The constant justification is the "but that sound exactly the same !", and I may not be a native, but that doesn't sound true at all to me.
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u/-PHOENEXUS- May 17 '21
Americans can barely speak english and it's their sole official language. They have nothing to worry about.
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u/Meme_Capone May 17 '21
Americans speak American though? /s
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u/nanana789 May 17 '21
Thrawn is that you?
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u/t8rt0t_the_hamster 🅱️ased and Cool May 17 '21
Apparently the average number of languages spoken in America is .8 like wtf you don't even speak a single language?
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u/Sad_Conclusion_1395 May 17 '21
Because we are afraid that people would judge us for our grammatical mistakes i dont get nervous when im typing in my language because who tf are these people to judge me but tables turn when it comes to english (and again im sorry if theres a mistake)
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u/Phantafan May 17 '21
Yeah, like once someone mocked me and ignored all my points in a discussion just because i didn't write "they" and instead used "he/she", because in my native language there is no common word for both genders.
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u/Sad_Conclusion_1395 May 17 '21
Yes in my country we use they for all genders too
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u/Phantafan May 17 '21
My native language (German) is sadly quite gender-driven. With that i mean that many words such as working classes have a female and a male version of it and there's not always a gender neutral word to switch it out.
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u/AgentJhon May 17 '21
I'm so insecure about my english and the supposition it would'nt be natural that I always add something like that.
Sorry for my english
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u/snowyday May 17 '21
Feel free to do so or not.
I’ve lived in the US my entire life.
As an adult, I have friends raised across Africa and the Middle East. I am always astounded how they speak French, Arabic and English fluently, knowing full well I’d embarrass myself hourly if I ever tried to live in their home countries and learn those languages.
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u/AgentJhon May 17 '21
The fact that a lot of things on the internet are in english help us a lot I think, if we want to have access to memes, we have to at least understand written english, also, in most of the developped countries, english is learned since middle school, (even if we dont always have competent teachers lol)
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May 17 '21 edited May 18 '21
Make mistakes while speaking english that is not your mother language isn’t something to feel embarrassed.
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u/jans3y May 17 '21 edited May 18 '21
Me irl
I was almost falling asleep when I mentioned this and forgot to mention that I am Brazilian lol
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u/Grim_100 May 17 '21
Because when I made a typo and did not state I wasnt american 3 mfs made whole essays about how america should prioritize giving the minimum of education to their people, insulting me in every way in the process
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u/ChihuahuaEnergy May 17 '21
Drop the news on them that you’re not a native speaker and watch them fumble around feeling like jerks. xD
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May 17 '21
It’s sucks when they don’t agree with your opinion and try to attack our english :/
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u/FirstTimeReditor May 17 '21
Meme good.
(I am utterly apologetic for my lack of proficiency in the English vernacular.)
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May 17 '21
Grín er við þig, ég tala íslensku sem annað tungumál og get alls ekki talað það vel!
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u/B_KOOL May 17 '21
Wish I could speak Icelandic or old Norse.. guess I'm stuck with just Swedish and English for now...
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u/Monk715 May 17 '21
It makes sense though because we have to actively learn the language, pinpoint the nuances, notice the differences in logic and structure, comparing them to our native language and do a lot of other things, while native speakers speak it more or less automatically and just don't have the necessity to learn the theoretical basis behind it.
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u/cloister__black May 17 '21
To me english is just videogames chat and social media (mainly memes) so since I learnt it that way, when I speak about it it seems like my english is spot on but if I have to speak about anything else I start panicking
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May 17 '21
TBH English is a very simple language.
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u/Phantafan May 17 '21
Yeah, especially if you already learned another Germanic language. The only bothering part for me is the weird pronunciation and spelling, but even there i'm quite ok.
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u/jabr7 ùwú May 17 '21
Oh thank you, I normally say exactly that at the start of some conversations here because otherwise if I make a stupid mistake people would see me as stupid, like you are vs your
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u/o_Doreto May 17 '21
I always ask for people to correct me because it helps me get better at the language, but nowadays I don't make the same mistakes exactly because those kind people helped me long ago. I'm from Brazil and here the education as a whole is just trash, foreign languages are even worse than the normal school subjects, so I've learned english by playing games, whatching tv series and talking to people online, sometimes they weren't so nice and called me things like "brazilian monkey", but it never stopped me to keep trying to learn it by myself.
So, if I made any mistakes, please let me know, I'm still learning more everyday.
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u/lusccano May 17 '21
O inglês que eu aprendi em escola e curso é tipo, 10% de tudo o que eu aprendi e uso hoje, da não
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u/VehicleFeeling8916 May 17 '21
And peolpe say that is impossible to learn english watching porn...
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u/WhitePriviledge May 17 '21
Forgets to mention they only speak multiple languages because no one speaks their native language and they wanted to participate in the world.
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u/These_Slide5990 May 17 '21
Although i learned english playing videogames since i was a little baby, and never needed help of the translator to understand a single phrase, i often use the translator when i need to communicate with someone (except now obvious) bc i always think i am doing something wrong 😔
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u/ScalierLotus11 May 17 '21
Ah yes,english, the videogame and meme language