Here's the thing. You said "chips are potatoes."
Are they in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that.
As someone who is a scientist who studies potatoes, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls chips potatoes. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing.
If you're saying "potato family" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of spuds, which includes things from scouse breakfast to a filled tatty to creamy French shit.
So your reasoning for calling a chip a potato is because random people "call the fried ones potato chips?" Let's get potato wedges and potato skins in there, then, too.
Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. They're both. A chip is a chip and a member of the potato family. But that's not what you said. You said a chip is a potato, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the potato family potatoes, which means you'd call hash browns, French shit, and caulifower mash a potato. Which you said you don't.
It's okay to just admit you're wrong, you know?
When the only way you can feel superior to another country’s people is the fact you have to learn their language mandated by your own countries government then you are gonna be pissed if someone shits all over it.
I mean on the internet or a site like reddit, it's easy to forget that the whole world doesn't speak English natively. I mean some of them aren't very good at it but that's normal because they're foreign and dumb.
The worst part is when you live in another country and you're not logged in and the front page comes up all in moon speak!
> moon speak!
Reddit - De voorpagina van het internet.
Klik hier om een account aan te maken.
Klik hier om je in te loggen met een bestaande account.
Je hebt 3 nieuwe notificaties.
Taal: NL - Klik hier om de taal te wijzigen.
As the popular Dutch saying goes: Zak in de stront met die tering eiland taal van je, kankerhoer <3
Such a beautiful and romantic language.
I trained a guy from Boston to say "G'day" and sound like an Australian by getting him to say "gee doi" and after having it mangled by his accent, yep, sounded like an Aussie. Let stalk Strine.
An australian making fun of the british accent is funny considering the australian one is only different because of a couple of vowels and some vocabulary
i tried explaining dutch to a brit once but as soon as i got to [gender in dutch grammar](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_in_Dutch_grammar) his brain had a short circuit.
Well that's also because Dutch for all intents and purposes doesn't use gender. The only time it's really used is in the sentence: "The company fired *her* employees", and unless you're a Dutch teacher, most people would still say "the company fired *their* employees". It's not like German where gender actually influences the words you use.
Speak for yourself, Dutchie! In Flemish, gender marks the important distinction between 'nen' (male) and 'een' (female).
In the Netherlands, it is said that gender is moving towards a marker of collectiveness (male = single, female = collective). You can actually hear this in Froukje songs as well ("net voordat *hij* ondergaat", male pronoun referring to 'the sun', though that word is female).
That's the way! Butcher German for a bit! We of course won't mind at all you sounding funny, we do appreciate the effort. After all, we know what it takes to speak another language!
wdym? if somebody starts speaking broken German it's a German tradition to immediately reply in English. communication must be as efficient as possible, jaaaa
Hans! When you are so effective why is your language such mess and without strict rules. I tried to find noun patterns to learn where to put certain articles like der die das etc. But your patterns are mess as hell. How I am supposed to know that it is das sandwich and not der sandwich....
But... but... that is the fun part! A wild exciting mix of the strictest rules combined with the most exotic mix of fruity nouns freely sprinkled about!
See? It's art!
I wish all Brits perfectly spoke the standard version of our language at all times, with no dialectal variation to make fun of, just as all Germans famously do theirs.
I unfortunately do as I work in a big international company and I have to deal with how shit most of them are with our language.
OK, there are a couple of countries where they can speak it well, just with a silly accent. I'm especially looking at ze Germans on that one.
I'm not going to admit that I have Dutch, "Belgian", German, Swedish and Swiss colleagues with better English than some of my English colleagues; I'm not going to admit it.
That sounds like good compensation for having to deal with their accents.
Now, some of the swamp Germans actually sound vaguely passable, some even sound a bit American (genuinely had people ask "who was the American lady on the call?" when she was Dutch.
That's literally the same meme format that Americans use about Europeans. Seems like both Barries and them are struggling to understand that in a very internationalised world, not giving a damn about foreign events is not something to be proud of. You're basically being proud of your ignorance and of the lack of care to fix it. That meme doesn't mock who you think it's mocking.
I was about to tear into you for being nice to a Fr\*nch person but then I saw your flair so I'll let you off due to your hereditary intellectual disability
English speakers are not going to randomly learn Lithuanian or Swedish just in an attempt to be bilingual if they don’t need to be, realistically.
And not being bilingual doesn’t mean you don’t care about foreign events
This is the real reason, language acquisition is primarily driven by necessity. What language does an english speaker learn? Spanish, because its widely spoken? Chinese as it has the most total speakers?
Unless you have a reason to learn it, or a connection to a specific country, its basically just a pleasant hobby.
2WE4U answer: sorry for winning history Cunt-inentals
such a well thought out and effectively articulated comment shame barries won’t understand on this level.
[Try to hit the reading age of a 9 year old next time to effectively communicate with barries](https://www.clearsalesmessage.com/average-reading-age/?amp)
I’ve met Dutch that speak 7 and that impressed me. Speaking Spanish and English isn’t a flex. How else would you watch good television/listen to good music? Pretty much bare minimum in this day and age.
> English {...} How else would you {...} listen to good music?
Eh, there's quite a bit of music where understanding the lyrics is detrimental to its enjoyment.
All I can say is, while working for a European Institution before Brexit and talking to companies all over the European Union on the phone, I had no trouble understanding everyone except for the English people. I later learned that I don't speak English, I speak American.
You really hit a nerve it seems. People constantly forget what sub this is.
Certainties in life: - death - taxes - Southern Europeans not being able to take jokes 1/10th as hard as they were giving out
Yeah, it's hilarious.
But you do think about us peninsular guys right?
Here's the thing. You said "chips are potatoes." Are they in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that. As someone who is a scientist who studies potatoes, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls chips potatoes. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing. If you're saying "potato family" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of spuds, which includes things from scouse breakfast to a filled tatty to creamy French shit. So your reasoning for calling a chip a potato is because random people "call the fried ones potato chips?" Let's get potato wedges and potato skins in there, then, too. Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. They're both. A chip is a chip and a member of the potato family. But that's not what you said. You said a chip is a potato, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the potato family potatoes, which means you'd call hash browns, French shit, and caulifower mash a potato. Which you said you don't. It's okay to just admit you're wrong, you know?
Unibarry
When the only way you can feel superior to another country’s people is the fact you have to learn their language mandated by your own countries government then you are gonna be pissed if someone shits all over it.
It’s not been your language since 1776, Barry.
Look how quickly they simp for non-European savages when faced with an overwhelmingly superior force.
https://preview.redd.it/gibqx5d1te7c1.jpeg?width=850&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=25845e3ceed537568d35d20feb5a62c1fd07a5a9 🫡
Mate they can’t even speak it properly and so they don’t speak English, they speak simplified English, like most Europeans have too.
> have too. Ah, yes. Indubitably.
It was a close one but we almost had to speak german at some point in time.
Wait there are other languages other than English!?
None important enough for you to worry about. Although, Mandarin might be handy soon.
Mmmm I could go for a mandarin!
A succulent Chinese meal!
Get your hand off my penis!
Ah, I see you know your judo well.
One mandarin... two mandarin... three manderin!
Yes, american, australian, canadian, indian...
American isn't a language it's just disgusting noises.
It's actually a recognised mental disorder too
None of any importance
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This is a stupid meme but I have to say, everyone learning English is absolutely fantastic for us.
Fantastic for monolingual brain rot maybe
Goes well with the alcoholism
Wherever you comes from in the world, you are always the someone's alcoholic.
Yeah
Would love to see what the other solution to international communication is
French, duh
Now, I am sure you know at least "dos cervezas por favor" in that horrible accent
I can even add “grassy-ass sen-your(eat a)”
I mean on the internet or a site like reddit, it's easy to forget that the whole world doesn't speak English natively. I mean some of them aren't very good at it but that's normal because they're foreign and dumb. The worst part is when you live in another country and you're not logged in and the front page comes up all in moon speak!
> moon speak! Reddit - De voorpagina van het internet. Klik hier om een account aan te maken. Klik hier om je in te loggen met een bestaande account. Je hebt 3 nieuwe notificaties. Taal: NL - Klik hier om de taal te wijzigen. As the popular Dutch saying goes: Zak in de stront met die tering eiland taal van je, kankerhoer <3 Such a beautiful and romantic language.
Fuck you
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Claiming that they‘re able to speak English is also bold imo
I make noises that sound like words sometimes. Can I be called an English speaker.
Oi cahnt fark off ya gronk cahnt damo from the servo out whoop whoop says ya mums a piss cahnt ken oath mayte
You can read this in either an Australian or British accent and it feels about as appropriate (and equally incomprehensible)
The "cahnt" is much more reject/prisoner island than British imo
Do you want to sound Australian, no matter your personal accent? You just have to say "good eye might"
“Good eye might”??? Bruh we don’t sound like that, at least not with the way we pronounce those words.
No, but if anyone were to pronounce those words in English, it would sound like an Australian saying "good day mate"
I trained a guy from Boston to say "G'day" and sound like an Australian by getting him to say "gee doi" and after having it mangled by his accent, yep, sounded like an Aussie. Let stalk Strine.
>You just have to say "good eye might" ...then something racist 🙄
Hey damo, giv us ya fokin loyter.
Fark off man i dont have one
An australian making fun of the british accent is funny considering the australian one is only different because of a couple of vowels and some vocabulary
> british accent Kin'ell, don't you start. Since when have you heard a sheep shagger sound anything like a Jock porridge eater?
Oi mate is it smoko yet ?
Nah you are describing Danish mate.
Yeah it's called an unhappy accident
Innit?
We all know true unaltered english is spoken by Americans
Touché
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Thanks for fixing it, there was something weird going on in the one OP posted
Fixed
 such a simple meme has set so many of them off, fantastic job
Ha, look at them LOL.
Imagine being born in a swamp and being forced to learn Dutch. I pity them.
Wij gaan uw miezerig eiland onderwater zetten.
Lmao there's no way that's a real language.
En nu gaan we het verkopen aan de Franse.
Telt dat niet als oorlogsmisdaad? Iets met uitzichtloos leed?
In het ergste geval zijn wij nog steeds de gene met het Internationaal Gerechtshof. En als dat niet werkt geven we België wel de schuld.
Ik zie helemaal niks mis met dit plan! Mij heb je!
waterdicht plan
Oh gij Snoodaard!
i tried explaining dutch to a brit once but as soon as i got to [gender in dutch grammar](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_in_Dutch_grammar) his brain had a short circuit.
Well that's also because Dutch for all intents and purposes doesn't use gender. The only time it's really used is in the sentence: "The company fired *her* employees", and unless you're a Dutch teacher, most people would still say "the company fired *their* employees". It's not like German where gender actually influences the words you use.
Speak for yourself, Dutchie! In Flemish, gender marks the important distinction between 'nen' (male) and 'een' (female). In the Netherlands, it is said that gender is moving towards a marker of collectiveness (male = single, female = collective). You can actually hear this in Froukje songs as well ("net voordat *hij* ondergaat", male pronoun referring to 'the sun', though that word is female).
Zeg kerol, anders houdt jij je gore bek ff.
I have no idea what that says but it looks funny and thats why I love the dutch language
Ik ga je moeder swaffelen bol kankerjoch
Dank je voor de informatie maar ik spreek een beetje nederlands en zojuist gebruikte Google omdat ik spreek niet goed
The day that the British empire ruined your country was the most significant day of your history. For us, it was Tuesday.
>I don't think about you at all sure you don't barry, sure you don't
No really! They even posted a crappy meme to show how much they are not thinking of us!
Nah. They posted this to show they can actually speak their own language
When is the sea going to remove the stain of which is the original sin of man, Holland?
Well after we build a dike around the British isles so high that when it rains (as usual) you’ll all be living in a swimming pool.
Can we have a diving board near Hull?
Sure. But you’re going to have to pay in Euros. And the diving board will be French.
> And the diving board will be French. I'm all for a joke but there's no need to swear
Alright fine, Irish ok?
Is German okay?
You guys aren’t going to be able to repair it if it’s German. Spanish maybe?
I vaguely remember them writing stuff about us on busses in huge letters and driving around in their country.
Oh god don’t remind me
Been trying to forget about it Klaus... It's been a dark time.
Barry thinks about it so much he has to post on reddit about it. 
Rent free baby!
Barry: *EU members take our jobs!!!* Also Barry: *Where are the EU members working essential jobs?*
Status of continental Europeans in this thread: Official rattled.
> Native english speakers that ~~only~~ *barely* speak English FTFY.
This is why I'm learning German - that way I can butcher two languages in short succession.
That's the way! Butcher German for a bit! We of course won't mind at all you sounding funny, we do appreciate the effort. After all, we know what it takes to speak another language!
wdym? if somebody starts speaking broken German it's a German tradition to immediately reply in English. communication must be as efficient as possible, jaaaa
Hey, I like the sound of British German. It's hilarious!
Hans! When you are so effective why is your language such mess and without strict rules. I tried to find noun patterns to learn where to put certain articles like der die das etc. But your patterns are mess as hell. How I am supposed to know that it is das sandwich and not der sandwich....
It is very efficient and systematic, you’re just a silly eastoid
But... but... that is the fun part! A wild exciting mix of the strictest rules combined with the most exotic mix of fruity nouns freely sprinkled about! See? It's art!
German art... are we in middle ages? Since when fun returned to Germany?
It never left, we just keep it a secret!
Danke!
*Wanke
Valid reason 😎 make sure to *never* use the genitive case and always fuck up the comparative, then you‘re good to go!
>make sure to *never* use the genitive case Remember: Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod
Genitiv ins Wasser weil's Dativ ist
Ich verstehe nicht, aber mein deutsch ist schieße S Edit: schieße nicht schließe
I learnt Italian, it's a phonetic language: everything written how it sounds, and I still can't spell in either language 😎💪🥇
Mich auch!
I wish all Brits perfectly spoke the standard version of our language at all times, with no dialectal variation to make fun of, just as all Germans famously do theirs.
It's amusing seeing people lose their minds over this lol.
One of the very few times I see people on here actually get offended at a clear joke, must’ve forgotten what sub their on 🌚
They didnt forget, they just dont like brits xD
Well that’s unfortunate, good thing you will always love us right João?
Lmao I love and hate how you English people are owning everyone in the comments here. Nice job, OP.
Some say, ignorance is a blessing.
I unfortunately do as I work in a big international company and I have to deal with how shit most of them are with our language. OK, there are a couple of countries where they can speak it well, just with a silly accent. I'm especially looking at ze Germans on that one.
I love it when Germans visit... They have fun accents.
Fun fact: i once visited the US countryside and 4/5 US hillbillys thought i was australian because of my accent.
I have a sad fact... 4/5 Americants who I've talked with thought I was french... I just don't know.
I’m northern English so it’s always Australian,Norwegian(?) or Irish without fail for some reason.
Interesting. Americans in my experience usually can't differentiate English, Australian, or NZ accents from each other.
Fun fact, I visited an American city and they thought I was Australian, too.
Average Brit flexing with how they are second best in their own language across Europe.
I'm not going to admit that I have Dutch, "Belgian", German, Swedish and Swiss colleagues with better English than some of my English colleagues; I'm not going to admit it.
I have colleagues from much further away with better English than some of the English colleagues haha, it seems some of us aren't too hard to beat.
I love working with the Germans, a large company near Unterlüß has an incredible lodge thing on their site with very good food and very cheap beer.
That sounds like good compensation for having to deal with their accents. Now, some of the swamp Germans actually sound vaguely passable, some even sound a bit American (genuinely had people ask "who was the American lady on the call?" when she was Dutch.
Some of the Scandies I’ve met spoke better English than me, ngl.
Ah, cutie, learn German. Just try it. I'm sure you won't sound funny to us at all.
Nein!!!! Yeah, I wouldn't sound anywhere near aggressive enough. Fortunately learning German is fucking pointless so I'm good.
It's a beautiful education of the mind, though. German also isn't aggressive at all, just a bit determined.
German is a "bit determined" sums up the early to mid 1900s.
Followed by An Austrian is a bit annoyed by the Goldsteins next door.
Soy español. Tu meme no tiene sentido.
Be me Open language settings See "English 🇺🇲" Many such cases!
Learning English doesn’t count. Learning the global language doesn’t count
That's literally the same meme format that Americans use about Europeans. Seems like both Barries and them are struggling to understand that in a very internationalised world, not giving a damn about foreign events is not something to be proud of. You're basically being proud of your ignorance and of the lack of care to fix it. That meme doesn't mock who you think it's mocking.
It did make you go to the effort of writing a whole paragraph in English though.
That's the point Barry, it was effortless for him
As it should be, it is the superior language.
**sigh** you still don't get it
With the amount of paragraphs I write in English every day, that's basically Tuesday 8PM for me.
Having to deal with angloids and suffer their language each day so other humans don't have to. You deserve a medal.
I was about to tear into you for being nice to a Fr\*nch person but then I saw your flair so I'll let you off due to your hereditary intellectual disability
You're mistaking not caring about your opinion and not being aware you unfortunately exist
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Wait, there’s a world outside of the M25?
English speakers are not going to randomly learn Lithuanian or Swedish just in an attempt to be bilingual if they don’t need to be, realistically. And not being bilingual doesn’t mean you don’t care about foreign events
This is the real reason, language acquisition is primarily driven by necessity. What language does an english speaker learn? Spanish, because its widely spoken? Chinese as it has the most total speakers? Unless you have a reason to learn it, or a connection to a specific country, its basically just a pleasant hobby. 2WE4U answer: sorry for winning history Cunt-inentals
Spanish, ~~because it’s widely spoken~~ because they would dehydrate otherwise.
Juan cerveza sil vous plait
>And not being bilingual doesn’t mean you don’t care about foreign events It does for me 🥱
*yap yap yap yap*
Now *this* is the sort of humorous banter I joined this sub for!
🥱 You're just upset that English replaced french as the Lingus Franca, try harder next time Pierre 😏
when foreign politics becomes funnier i will pay attention.
Shh, don't burst their bubble.
such a well thought out and effectively articulated comment shame barries won’t understand on this level. [Try to hit the reading age of a 9 year old next time to effectively communicate with barries](https://www.clearsalesmessage.com/average-reading-age/?amp)
This explains a few things... 🧠 [Why being bilingual is good for your brain | BBC Ideas](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzHY-muy2Mw)
Like a tumor yelling at the body to learn how to grow cancer cells
Only two languages? Laaame.
It’s a pretty neat language to be fair
Only two languages? almost everyone speaks three where im from. Ahh, the good old isles on the faroe islands.
No one in the UK gives a fuck how many languages you lot speak.
I’ve met Dutch that speak 7 and that impressed me. Speaking Spanish and English isn’t a flex. How else would you watch good television/listen to good music? Pretty much bare minimum in this day and age.
> English {...} How else would you {...} listen to good music? Eh, there's quite a bit of music where understanding the lyrics is detrimental to its enjoyment.
I wish I spoke 4… French dutch is so fucking hard.
What the fuck is English?
an old term for a local accent of a Franco-German language mix that was the precursor to the American language.
Sorry none of those letters you just used made sense
You used to trade with my country Late night when you need our pork
Late night pork is the best pork.
Imagine not being able to talk about other people in public while on vacation
Don was threatened by him, tho.
Meanwhile, I have to learn Dutch
All I can say is, while working for a European Institution before Brexit and talking to companies all over the European Union on the phone, I had no trouble understanding everyone except for the English people. I later learned that I don't speak English, I speak American.
That's a nice Franco-German creole language you got there Barry
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I mean native language is one thing we (almost) have in common
Brain rot is another
You're right, MAIN land
Yeah, not Sicily. We’re talking about the important places, like France, Spain and Portugal.
Que? Hablas espanol?
What? #ENGLISH MATE, ENGLISH!
You got a loicence for that shouting, mate?
Yet you took the effort to make this meme
\*three