A European dialect? What does that even mean? American dialect maybe? Some Englishes or Frenches of North America are not immediately intelligible to the ‘common’ language speaker.
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She was communicating with the Trumpster!
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my apologies for perhaps using the wrong word (dialect is clearly inaccurate). I sincerely feel badly for having bothered you so greatly you felt the need to post this comment.
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I know I prefer the original voice performances to that of a truck.
No. I don’t think I do that…
Your gif game is on point
No one of thinks we do that. But it’s been getting increasingly obvious to me now that I’ve started keeping an eye open for it. Not that I’m keeping a list of instances but its frequency makes interacting with the extended Happy Mutant family more and more unappealing to me.
If I were to make an ass-pull about the reason for it I’d say it’s just because a lot of us come from often attacked subcultures. That sense of being embattled leads folks to assume everyone is, as George “Seems-Not-So-Bad-Now” Bush once said, either with us or against us.
I dunno. But I gave up on the other board because of it.
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Sure, but I bet that if I turned the volume down, I’d be unable to “hear” what the characters are saying.
no thank you
it yields attention, unless you’re an asshole about it, then you’re just an asshole. Apparently.
Walnut Creek doesn’t touch any part of the SF Bay. I don’t believe it even touches any other city that in turn touches the bay. By your definition, anything in California could be, to varying degrees, part of the Bay Area, depending only on how much you’re willing to squint at the map. So yes, Walnut Creek is in close proximity to the SF Bay Area. But it’s not actually the Bay Area by any reasonable definition.
Thanks for the assumptions, but I’ve been here quite a bit longer than that. And I’m not one bit phased by whether the Bay Area lives up to my expectations or not, WRT who lives here. I am a stickler (and pedantic one, at that) about misused geographical definitions, and I make no apologies for that.
Oh excuse me, I didn’t realize I was talking to the official authority on the matter.
Somehow, I’m willing to bet that we each have very different definitions of that word.
Good day.
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It’s a thankless job, I’ll tell ya. But someone’s got to do it.
There’s a funny story about how I got kicked off a bus for reacting badly to someone making no effort to shut up their screaming crotchgoblin.
I was in the row immediately behind said screaming child, and decided to start screaming too. When the parent looked at me in a panic I just pointed to her kid and said “I thought he knew something we weren’t noticing, so I decided to join in.”
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Ah-ha I knew I was good with it!
Yes.
I just think the fact that other nations tell their people not to come to the US specifically because of a bigotry problem. But noone’s warning people off of South Korea. Makes it even more ridiculous.
Sort of an “even if that were valid, it’d still be the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard” sort of thing.
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Well… She did say “If you can sit and be quiet, fine, but I don’t want to hear your language.” Does that not suggest that the volume may have been a significant contributing factor?
Pretty sure “sit and be quiet” is racist old lady for “shut up, scary brown person.”
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The racist old white lady (“America’s Last Line of Defense”) thought they were saying that her hovercraft was full of eels - and she naturally took exception to it.
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When I hear foreign languages in public (not including English, which I know too well, and not including German, which isn’t foreign where I live), it is always a problem for me.
I tend to zone out and try to figure out what language it is, whether it is related to any language I learned, and to try to see how much I can understand if its a language that I actually spent some effort on already. I know it’s rude to ignore the person I’m actually having a conversation with, and I know it’s rude to listen in on other people’s conversations, but those evil foreigners are making me do it!! It’s just too hard to pass up on a free language lesson.
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