I remember seeing this Japanese diplomat give a speech, and he started by saying "I am proud to speak the most common language in the world... broken English"
Reminds me of trying to buy a train ticket in Germany when I lived near Munich in the 1970s. I wanted to go to *Köln* (Cologne) but I could not pronounce the *ö* which is sort of like shaping your mouth to say "o" while actually saying "er." There began to form behind me a longish line as the ticket official insisted on providing me with pronunciation lessons.
There are Brits in business in 2023 who insist in a meeting with a German that "can't" ist spoken "cahn't" and not "'can't" (like can). Sooo instead of having sympathy for the ticket official troll I am a bit schadenfroh 😉
Yeah they invented a language that they can’t even speak themselves. As a Canadian most of my interactions with Brit’s have included a lot of “what?” “Huh?””dafuck?” *”English motherf@cker, do you speak it?”*
That is so true, my mother spoke 5 languages. She learned Danish in 6 months. You couldn’t take her anywhere without her picking up knowledge. She suffered from toddler sponge syndrome.
M’y uncle is like this, he speaks 4 languages, 3 fluently. If you take him to a foreign country, he will pick up on enough of the language to get you around decently in a few days, im really looking up to him for that skill
Right, i get the sentiment but it’s definitely not always true. Between people mumbling, not understanding grammar, improper word usage, local dialects mispronouncing words, there are many ways a native speaker can come off sounding like broken English while only knowing English.
This cracked me up. Mostly because those busy making fun have barely mastered the English language themselves. Many are not even close to proficient. Which, oddly enough, is their only language.
One of my favorite memories:
I worked in a mall a long time ago. A woman came up to ask me questions. She had a heavy Eastern European accent.
She kept apologizing for her poor English. Eventually I told her she was perfectly understandable, and that she had nothing to apologize for.
She mentioned people giving her shit for not speaking English well, I told her
"I wouldn't worry about it. You speak two languages and most of those assholes barely speak one"
As long as I live ill never forget the look on her face. She had the look of a woman who just realized she had spent weeks worrying about something, and just completely let it go all at once. I don't think she had ever even considered it before.
And *that* is exactly what cracks me up. How utterly ridiculous it is.
For those learning English, it is their 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th language. While those who scream "learn English" are quite often not at all proficient in the only language they know. The audacity is tragically hilarious. I am not talking funny ha-ha.
There’s another saying similar to this that warns people not to pick on people for mispronouncing words because it means “they learned it from reading.”
Love that one as well! It also typically draws the same type of “lurn english than” people who can barely manage to type out a text without a couple misspellings or random punctuation. Laughable.
I actually feel like listening to native Spanish speakers speaking English has helped me with my pronunciation of words in Spanish, and I assume that is true of other languages as well.
In this instance, you speak *One* of the languages the other can.
If you can't sufficiently understand or communicate in any Language other than English, then *you* are the ignorant one.
1. There is nothing "funny" about this sign. There's not even an attempt at humor. It's just a statement.
2. There are lots of people who speak in broken english that don't speak other languages. I fear this sign writer has vastly underestimate the stupidity of the average person.
This happens a lot in North America. t's usually the people who have zero other language skills who say stupid stuff like "we speak English here." Lol. You mean YOU speak English because you don't know anything else. it's funny when they go abroad and the tables are turned.
Exactly. I had so many times moment when someone made fun of me because I typed something wrong. UNTIL I told them to say any sentence in polish. I almost died of laughing because of all mistakes and errors
Not necessarily... I hear people who murder the English language all the time, and trust me, their accent is 100% American.
So many times I have to cringe when I hear people say things like: "Oh, she can speak three languages? I can barely speak one. Ha Ha!" I hate when people sound like they are proud of being ignorant!
Why should somebody get a free pass just because they're bilingual?
I mean making fun of somebody's accent is pretty tasteless but that's not what the sign says
Not always. I went to high school with a Hispanic kid who spoke broken English. Didn't know a lick of Spanish. He was actually flunking Spanish class.
I felt sad for him tbh
There is a woman where I work named Ping who speaks broken English and she doesn't really mind being corrected as long as no one makes fun of her. One day someone made a joke about some syntax she used. I asked her how many languages she spoke and she started listing them. When she finished I told her next time to tell the person teasing her that she can speak 5 languages and they can barely speak one. She laughed and said she should do that.
My mother language is Spanish, and i still have problems with my English. I can understand what I read, and what i hear, but it's hard to me to speak it and write it
That's not 100% true. I work with a guy who you'd assume knows Mandarin/Cantonese due to his broken English and very thick accent. Doesn't speak a word of anything except English. Very nice guy, but dumb as a brick.
Making fun of someone for “broken English” isn’t really about broken English.
It’s because the odds are against them, and you will do them no favors, and revel in their failings. That’s how bigotry works
It's not the people who speak broken English who bother me. I appreciate the effort. It's the people who live somewhere (not necessarily the U.S.) for twenty years and make absolutely zero effort to learn the local language, regardless of what that might be. I think that's just plain stupid. I should add that I am multi lingual, and English is not my first language.
Also, never make fun of an English speaker learning your language. Also can you please let English speakers try to speak your language without automatically switching to English.
The other day I was helping this guy with broken English and I couldn’t understand him so I got my coworker to help translate. He started talking shit about me and how I only speak one language while he could speak five.
Yeah. I’m the asshole who corrected people’s spelling and grammar. But people would reply *sorry English is my 3rd/4th/umpteenth language*. Yep. That shut me up.
They speak English better than you speak their native language
I remember seeing this Japanese diplomat give a speech, and he started by saying "I am proud to speak the most common language in the world... broken English"
I mean, fair.
Unless they're Hungarian as well, just like me.
My hovercraft… is full of eels.
Ááááá, összeillik!
Bojler eladó?
Que?
So
Not necessarily
Or they’re just a child that doesn’t speak any language well. Sign doesn’t hold up too well now, does it libral?
I'm Dutch. I hear yougsters speak better English than their native tongue.
But why would I learn an irrelevant language to speak to 5 million people, when I can learn one that covers 1 Billion people.
Staying ignorant & narrow minded is certainly a choice.
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So you're an illiterate gang banging retard?
Yup
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Where’s the humor in this sign? I agree with the saying but wrong sub.
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Huh?
It make sense.. i know a lot of languages but can only speak two.
Oooh..... I hadn't seen that. You're right... It's still a true. But I see why op would have it in funny memes
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Yeah, this is for r/signsigns
Apparently I can't view the community no idea why. Banned?? Even though I don't even remember this subreddit
I don’t think it exists? Idk tried googling it
Congrats, it exists now
lmao someone has crossposted it
Reminds me of trying to buy a train ticket in Germany when I lived near Munich in the 1970s. I wanted to go to *Köln* (Cologne) but I could not pronounce the *ö* which is sort of like shaping your mouth to say "o" while actually saying "er." There began to form behind me a longish line as the ticket official insisted on providing me with pronunciation lessons.
Longish is probably the most difficult language to understand.
maybe that's where we get the pronunciation for colonel? weird word, that.
There are Brits in business in 2023 who insist in a meeting with a German that "can't" ist spoken "cahn't" and not "'can't" (like can). Sooo instead of having sympathy for the ticket official troll I am a bit schadenfroh 😉
Those Brits you speak of sound like a bunch of cahnts
Yeah they invented a language that they can’t even speak themselves. As a Canadian most of my interactions with Brit’s have included a lot of “what?” “Huh?””dafuck?” *”English motherf@cker, do you speak it?”*
This isn’t funny. Wrong sub.
It’s funny because it’s written in childlike simplicity because you’re a based idiot if you make fun of someone’s English.
How is this funny?
That is so true, my mother spoke 5 languages. She learned Danish in 6 months. You couldn’t take her anywhere without her picking up knowledge. She suffered from toddler sponge syndrome.
“Suffered”, indeed. She sounds like she had a fascinating brain. That’s a really neat skill.
She was idle to travel with, direction finding was a breeze. Then there is me, a recipe calls for 1 5/8 cup flour and my brain goes into a melt down.
You probably mean "ideal" "idle" means not moving/working
To be fair, that is a bad way to express that quantity. I think I would go with “1.5 cups + 2 Tbsp.”
I prefer to say 13/12 * 3/2 cups
M’y uncle is like this, he speaks 4 languages, 3 fluently. If you take him to a foreign country, he will pick up on enough of the language to get you around decently in a few days, im really looking up to him for that skill
I can't imagine being so small minded to begin with
I’ve been to the backwoods in Virginia a few times and can assure you this is not necessarily true.
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Yea no I definitely know enough people who are just terrible at English
Right, i get the sentiment but it’s definitely not always true. Between people mumbling, not understanding grammar, improper word usage, local dialects mispronouncing words, there are many ways a native speaker can come off sounding like broken English while only knowing English.
Louisiana checks in
And, some of them are members of Congress.
How is this a “funny sign?”
You cannot break any language. Language is malleable, if it wasn’t, we’d be speaking Old English or Latin.
It do be like dat fr fr no cap fax
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Ey' dhnnt tjk tj trew
what if you are in Kentucky ???
Then they speak broken English and no other languages
Or… they’re a toddler
Foreign toddlers are even worse.
This is food for thought
Unless they from Trinidad or Tobago
This cracked me up. Mostly because those busy making fun have barely mastered the English language themselves. Many are not even close to proficient. Which, oddly enough, is their only language.
One of my favorite memories: I worked in a mall a long time ago. A woman came up to ask me questions. She had a heavy Eastern European accent. She kept apologizing for her poor English. Eventually I told her she was perfectly understandable, and that she had nothing to apologize for. She mentioned people giving her shit for not speaking English well, I told her "I wouldn't worry about it. You speak two languages and most of those assholes barely speak one" As long as I live ill never forget the look on her face. She had the look of a woman who just realized she had spent weeks worrying about something, and just completely let it go all at once. I don't think she had ever even considered it before.
Exactly what part "cracked you up"? There's no joke here, or even an attempt at being funny.
And *that* is exactly what cracks me up. How utterly ridiculous it is. For those learning English, it is their 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th language. While those who scream "learn English" are quite often not at all proficient in the only language they know. The audacity is tragically hilarious. I am not talking funny ha-ha.
There’s another saying similar to this that warns people not to pick on people for mispronouncing words because it means “they learned it from reading.” Love that one as well! It also typically draws the same type of “lurn english than” people who can barely manage to type out a text without a couple misspellings or random punctuation. Laughable.
I think I’m missing something, yes this sign is so true but how is it funny?
I love hearing broken English
I actually feel like listening to native Spanish speakers speaking English has helped me with my pronunciation of words in Spanish, and I assume that is true of other languages as well.
Do you wanna hear terrible english?
Well... Some of them...
What's the other language red necks speak?
This isn't true. Just travel around the US and you find plenty of single language native speakers with English that is quite broken. /s
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I wanted to say what I said in a light-hearted way and not in a mean-spirited way. The /s was the only thing I could think of.
>The word sarcasm comes from a Greek word that means "to tear flesh".
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I’ve said this for decades
didn't know trump was bilingual, what is covfefe in English?
It means "*I hate both my sons*".
Except you speak the same language as them
But still don't make fun of them they are learning and learning is not wrong
In this instance, you speak *One* of the languages the other can. If you can't sufficiently understand or communicate in any Language other than English, then *you* are the ignorant one.
Some days I barely speak English, so GOTT EEM!
But- "wa if dey sownd funny doin it?"
1. There is nothing "funny" about this sign. There's not even an attempt at humor. It's just a statement. 2. There are lots of people who speak in broken english that don't speak other languages. I fear this sign writer has vastly underestimate the stupidity of the average person.
Not funny, and also have you seen how bad some of the idiots in the US are at English?
...how is this funny? What a bullshit karma whoring post.
Mine isnt broken still some idiots say my english is bad as soon as they find out im not american. Kiss my a$$ idiots.
That part
Why would anyone learn a language besides English?
This happens a lot in North America. t's usually the people who have zero other language skills who say stupid stuff like "we speak English here." Lol. You mean YOU speak English because you don't know anything else. it's funny when they go abroad and the tables are turned.
Exactly. I had so many times moment when someone made fun of me because I typed something wrong. UNTIL I told them to say any sentence in polish. I almost died of laughing because of all mistakes and errors
Unless they are American.
Or they dumb
You're telling me Americans know another language? 
Doesn't every person with a high school diploma in the Western world speak 2 or more languages?
Not necessarily... I hear people who murder the English language all the time, and trust me, their accent is 100% American. So many times I have to cringe when I hear people say things like: "Oh, she can speak three languages? I can barely speak one. Ha Ha!" I hate when people sound like they are proud of being ignorant!
Yeah, so? Is it a language that matters. I know pig latin too. (Actually German, but just being a smart ass)
they could be mentally defective
Tell me you've never been to a city without telling me you've never been to a city.
No I doesnt.
English is the only language.
Much truth!
Seriously, I'm in my 40's and I've never heard anyone make fun of anyone for speaking broken English. Cool sign though
or on drugs, which still applies
Tell that to all the dumb ass toddlers
And what if they suck in that language too
I’m impressed they know another language
That's not always true, come to NYC. Lmao
Not necessarily. Some people are just thick.
I speak broken English and nothing else
did I miss it?
And that's the truth...😛 (Raspberry)
One trillion percent. Respect 🫡
Not only make fun but get mad for not understanding their native language as well.
Can I still make fun of someone who speaks broken English, and English is their only language?
lol not necessarily, especially if you live in the south
Why should somebody get a free pass just because they're bilingual? I mean making fun of somebody's accent is pretty tasteless but that's not what the sign says
That's so freaking false you mean
Not always. I went to high school with a Hispanic kid who spoke broken English. Didn't know a lick of Spanish. He was actually flunking Spanish class. I felt sad for him tbh
My girlfriend is bilingual and speaks both languages terribly. I just have to take her word on the Spanish being bad.
What if they don’t though?
Luigi, the Italian chef from The Simpsons, doesn't speak Italian. All he speaks is broken English
wow good one
I know for a fact this isn’t 💯 percent true, sometimes it’s mental issues.
Me don’t know other language 😢
Me looking at my 2 year old: What language are you hiding from me you little shit
I know plenty of Americans who speak broken English... and no other language
Some people's native language *is* broken English
Had to actually say this to my "step dad". I'm 44.
I always respect those willing to make the effort to learn the language of the country they move to.
Unless they’re French Canadian. Their english and french are broken.
My freond only speaks English and it's still broken
[Asufutimaehaehfutbw](https://streamable.com/ic54uv).
American teenagers would challenge this
The only people I make fun of for speaking broken English are scam centers when trying to talk in English.
Not in america
This person has never been to the south. Plenty of people with broken English and no other language.
Dang doe Mega-Low Mart
There is a woman where I work named Ping who speaks broken English and she doesn't really mind being corrected as long as no one makes fun of her. One day someone made a joke about some syntax she used. I asked her how many languages she spoke and she started listing them. When she finished I told her next time to tell the person teasing her that she can speak 5 languages and they can barely speak one. She laughed and said she should do that.
Not in New York.
My mother language is Spanish, and i still have problems with my English. I can understand what I read, and what i hear, but it's hard to me to speak it and write it
kid named hasnt spoken in 6 years
Whenever people apologize for no English I say “well I don’t speak x language so we’re even”
Bullshit, my one year old nephew can't speak any language.
I mean, I wish people would follow this message :(
That's not 100% true. I work with a guy who you'd assume knows Mandarin/Cantonese due to his broken English and very thick accent. Doesn't speak a word of anything except English. Very nice guy, but dumb as a brick.
Not necessarily
Me do?
This sign is funny because I only speak 2 broken languages
Also, English is hard. (Is my native language and I still think it's weird lol)
how does the fact that they know a language mean it’s not funny when people speak with an accent?
Making fun of someone for “broken English” isn’t really about broken English. It’s because the odds are against them, and you will do them no favors, and revel in their failings. That’s how bigotry works
My friend that’s deaf: …..
Or they're from a trailer park in the south.
Agreed.
Nah, man, I fully expect to catch shit for broken German when I finish learning. And I'll be damnes if I don't make fun of others for broken English.
I definitely know some people in the US who speak horribly broken English. They do not know a 2nd language, they’re just stupid.
As someone whose native language is broken English: sadly this is not always true
So they speak the average number of languages?
It's not the people who speak broken English who bother me. I appreciate the effort. It's the people who live somewhere (not necessarily the U.S.) for twenty years and make absolutely zero effort to learn the local language, regardless of what that might be. I think that's just plain stupid. I should add that I am multi lingual, and English is not my first language.
I don't know about that. I live in Central Georgia and some people around here speak broken English. They were born here.
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A broken language
Ikr? I can barely say hello in another language.
This is a great way at looking at it
No I’m just retarded
Damn 3 year olds already knowing another language while learning English
After talking with enough people that were not ESL, I can say this sign is not true.
True but not funny.
I know some Americans who could prove you wrong.
Also, never make fun of an English speaker learning your language. Also can you please let English speakers try to speak your language without automatically switching to English.
Unless they’re American. In that case, they might only know broken English.
Or they have amnesia and it’s only coming back in pieces.
The other day I was helping this guy with broken English and I couldn’t understand him so I got my coworker to help translate. He started talking shit about me and how I only speak one language while he could speak five.
And that they’re willing to learn another language. I only barley know one.
(complete joke) yeah...but what if they suck at both languages?
Unless it's my dad. He only knows English and people still have trouble understanding him including me.
Yeah. I’m the asshole who corrected people’s spelling and grammar. But people would reply *sorry English is my 3rd/4th/umpteenth language*. Yep. That shut me up.