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minus-squarestebo@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down1·2 days agoit’s worse when it’s an American flag because I’m always looking for the British one
minus-squareScrollone@feddit.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down2·2 days agoBritish English is the OG English. They should always use that flag.
minus-squareSquirrelanna@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·18 hours agoWell if we want get technical it’s roots are in Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands.
minus-squareScrollone@feddit.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·14 hours agoWell if we want to get technical its roots are in the Indo-European which comes from the Iranian plateau
minus-squareSquirrelanna@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 hours agoI replied to the wrong person but you are right!
minus-squareSquirrelanna@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·2 days agoOld English would like to have a word.
minus-squareSouthEndSunset@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 day agoYou’re another that doesn’t understand “Received Pronunciation”, aren’t you?
minus-squaremilicent_bystandr@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 day agoReceived from the great founders of England: Abraham, Isaac and Jacob Lincoln, and Lord Martin Luther King Sr I.
minus-squaremilicent_bystandr@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·17 hours agoI just figured, if Old English came from America, then those great figures must be from whom we Receive Pronunciation. Or are We not amused at the fantastical American origins of true English?
minus-squarestebo@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·2 days agoyeah otherwise you might as well use the Australian flag or whatever
minus-squareScrollone@feddit.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·2 days agoOr even the Canadian flag, to make it even more fun for the US people lol
minus-squarestebo@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 day agook that’s even better yeah and also Canadian for french, because it’s never wrong to mess with the french
it’s worse when it’s an American flag because I’m always looking for the British one
British English is the OG English. They should always use that flag.
Well if we want get technical it’s roots are in Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands.
Well if we want to get technical its roots are in the Indo-European which comes from the Iranian plateau
I replied to the wrong person but you are right!
Old English would like to have a word.
Old English, where is that from?
ingerland
America
You’re another that doesn’t understand “Received Pronunciation”, aren’t you?
Received from the great founders of England: Abraham, Isaac and Jacob Lincoln, and Lord Martin Luther King Sr I.
I don’t get the joke sorry.
I just figured, if Old English came from America, then those great figures must be from whom we Receive Pronunciation.
Or are We not amused at the fantastical American origins of true English?
yeah otherwise you might as well use the Australian flag or whatever
Or even the Canadian flag, to make it even more fun for the US people lol
ok that’s even better yeah
and also Canadian for french, because it’s never wrong to mess with the french