“I only speak one language”… to a room full of mostly bilingual people who also live in (central or south) America. 🤦🤦🤦
They should only speak Spanish to him just to piss him off.
Those leaders are far right bootlickers.
Including the president elect of Chile (oh god please nonono… bah he doesn’t have the congress.)
That makes it more funny.
So Simplified English instead of Traditional English, right?
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.
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. 🫣
… until they start to understand and begin messing with you in return.
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.
“English (Simplified)”
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.
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.
It’s supposed to be a comma, an Oxford comma to be precise. But punctuation and comma are right next to eachother on my phone so, mistakes happen.
Simpleton* English
It’s not really simplified. Hegseth’s English, like Hegseth, is simple-minded, which is a different thing.
He probably wanted to say “English (simplified)”
We have the dumbest leaders ever," one person commented. “What a weird thing to be proud of,” a second person added"
this is some concise journalism. they didnt bother to even note if the people they were quoting were posting on twitter or a facebook thread in any way. just said “some dude said this”.
the irish star is a dirt rag tabloid, this isnt a source worth posting. surely other platforms are reporting on this
He only speaks War Crime.
USA is special kind of stupid that this probably gets a huge cheering back home.
USA is a special kind of stupid, but a majority still oppose war with Iran and… you know… raping children, so Hegseth isn’t too popular on the home front either.
a majority still oppose war with Iran and… you know… raping children
Yeah, I see, that’s why that majority stopped a pedophile president from having the control of the country, or stopped his clique of rarely sober religious nationalists from starting said war.
lmao you’re living in a fantasy if you think Americans have the capability to stop the government through instant, direct action
The only power we have is withholding our labor, and convincing people of the necessity of that when they’re brainwashed by capitalism is not an overnight or even over-4-years affair
Hadn’t said you need to necessarily do it instantly and directly, you invented it yourself just so you have something to be snippy about. Deliberate work over time is also good.
Doesn’t matter though, you’re not doing either. Or you’re so ineffective it’s indistinguishable from not doing anything.You know a lot about me for someone who does not know me lmao
But that’s consistent with the fact that you live in a fantasy.
Glad to hear that at least
It’s doesn’t worth much since the majority just keep his ass tight seat waiting for a “miracle” or a “magic savior” for their situation.
Sounds to me like both of you are correct: most Americans don’t like him but there are still millions of them who cheer him and his kind of populist actions and words.
Uh no. At least don’t paint us all with that brush please.
We gotta take our licks on this one. Look what we elected. It’s like a “not all men” thing. Sure it’s not actually all of us, but it’s enough of us to be a problem.
I’m sorry, I don’t agree with you. I’m from California and we are sitting over here just as aghast as any European nation you could name and larger than some.
We sent 54 electoral votes for Harris to Washington. You want to show me a European nation that did more than that to stop Trump?
I understand Americans as a whole have a responsibility. But this guy was trying to make a specific play-by-play call about how Americans are reacting to this back home and I see no logic in sitting quietly and agreeing with that.
“Don’t worry: We will make sure to use only small words for you”
I don’t speak American
Can someone translate
I’m not a very fluent speaker of asshole, but I’ll try. I think this little man said that his severe lack of
- education
- basic decency
did not allow him to
- speak any other language than the one he was born with
- know that this language is called “English”, and an “American” language does not exist
- realise this was a flaw rather than a badge of honour proudly to be worn in a diplomatic context.
Slight disagreement on there not being an american language. We actually have a bunch of native languages, one of which was used to help code communications during WWII.
You’re the best kind of correct - technically correct.
And yet, if you happened to be a speaker of Navajo, Sioux or Algonquin, you’d say just that. You wouldn’t say “I speak American”, just like a speaker of Flemish, Albanian or Finnish would not say “I speak (Indo-)European”. It’s a description of the geographic origin or the broader language family, but not a category useful to indicate any specific language like Drunk Pete is trying to do here.
That’s a fair assessment.
I spoke language once.
They should then switch to spanish as their lingua franca for that meeting (brazillians could pull if off).
Or switch to esperanto.No shit, it would be so damn funny if the whole world just switched over to Esperanto as second language, even if only to spite US and UK. Haah, one can dream the wildest things.
What language were they speaking in England before they stole one from USA?
Before or after the French took over in 1066?
England? Well there was Cornish and Manx. Cornish went extinct in the 18th century but the last monoglot speaker died in the 17th century.
I am not counting Welsh since that is in Wales… And Scots Gaelic is in Scotland, its own country.
The Scots and Irish keep Gaelic alive just to piss off the British.
Well that, but also it’s a really fucking cool language
Except the orthography, which works but is still conceptually insane.
imagine him thinking he has to speak LATIN in latin america. hes a mean drunk.
They speak Mexican!
This is a nationalistic move. To remove the washington regime away from other english speaking countries and brand itself as something larger. It makes the washington regime seem entitled to landgrabs. It makes washingtonlings feel superior to other english speakers.
It is as stupid as nationalism is stupid, but nationalism is great for ruling people.
A bullet in each of their brains would be too kind.
Add a cactus in each of their asses and we might be getting somewhere
Urethral meatus cactus
A cholla would be better.
I really hope his eventual tribunal leads to him rotting in a cell for many, many years.
I knew it lol I was waiting for it. I give it 6 months until the national language has been renamed to “American” through a illegal executive order
He really is that stupid, and all that alcohol doesn’t make him (or anyone) smarter.
Not beating the being stupid allegations…
