Americans when people from other countries come to theirs : “These people need to speak English”
Americans when they visit other people’s countries : “Why don’t these people speak English???”
Why is it baby Yoda though?
Because Yoda is one of the galaxy’s most recognized linguists?
His side hustle is teaching Shyriiwook
He’s thinking about a future where people call him Grogu instead of baby Yoda :-)
That’s pretty far into the future I have to guess
About 1.3 billion people (or approximately 16% of the world’s population) speak a variety of Chinese as their first language.
Americans when people from other countries come to theirs : “These people need to speak English”
Americans when they visit other people’s countries : “Why don’t these people speak English???”
The main point I see regarding the word “American”, is that people of the USA have pretty much claimed it and use it to refer to themselves, regardless of the other definition of it. So we roll with that lol
The vast majority of Americans do know Spanish. The only people who don’t are Canadians, USians, maybe Brazilians, Jamaicans, etc.
Most Americans do not speak Spanish. Knowing a phrase or two does not mean you’re speaking the language.
Exactly
I think you need to research what the words “vast majority” mean lol. The vast majority of Americans definitely do not know Spanish 😂
I think you need to reevaluate what the word American means. It includes the southern continent. So of the 35 countries that are over here 3 speak English, 1 Portuguese, 1 French and 30 Spanish. So yes, the vast majority of Americans speak Spanish.
You live in an alternate reality, use some common sense, when people say Americans it refers to people from the USA
In the common vernacular of today ‘American’ refers to people from the USA, or something of or related to the USA. That is one of the dictionary definitions of American, and quite frankly the most common usage in today’s world. Anyway, to make it clearer for people like you I edited post above to specify
Are you defining Americans as “people that live on the American continent and the Caribbean” or “people that live in the United States of America”?
I think OP means the former.
I’m defining Americans as most people do, the people that fucking sing God Bless America. Nobody in Latin America calls themselves Americanos, americanos son los gringos, de los EEUU
Mexicans do not call themselves Americans even knowing they are from North America.
People from and what they are called in English : Mexico - Mexicans, Canada - Canadians, Colombia - Colombians, Venezuela - Venezuelans, Panama - Panamanians, Brazil - Brazilians, Etc etc
Do you see a pattern? People from United States of America - Americans
Only on Reddit or Lemmy and places like them would you get a bunch of nerds storming in to say everybody in North, Central and South America are Americans.
On CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, Voice of America etc.,etc Americans are the people of the USA.
Or when they present poll results of Americans, they polled in Mexico, Ecuador, El Salvador, Canada etc etc too?
Nobody in the Caribbean calls themselves Americans 😂😂
Not even the “american continent”, that would include Canadians and they are not Americans. Los EEUU, the United States of America… And the fact that I have to explain that is irritating af, it should be obvious what “Americans” means. The Talibán does not target Colombians, Mexicans, Chileans, etc when they go after Americans
Mexicans are Americans too fam.
(North Americans)
If you have Asians, Europeans, and Africans, why is it that “Americans” is assumed to be a nationality instead of a continental/racial designation?
Because thats how the word has been used in English since at least the 18th century. This weird little hangup people have with it all the sudden is just people looking for a reason to hate on Americans. The folks trying to change the usage don’t even have good alternative word which shows that it isn’t an argument in good faith. The only alternative I’ve seen is “united statsians” which is nonsensical in English and cumbersome. Even the whiner from the original comment didn’t spell it out.
Makes me want to learn how to say “Go fuck yourself” in a Native American language.
Sí, por supuesto. :)
But some Americans already speak a little bit of another language… ¿por qué piensa que nosotros no hablamos español en Florida? (Sorry off terrible still learning unfortunately)
Don’t worry, your Spanish is perfect. But ain’t that cool to live in a place where people can speak two languages? As a latin American who has spoken English for most of my life (yet I still mess up sometimes), I can’t imagine only speaking one. Also, my daughter started learning ASL (just out of curiosity), so I’m helping her and learning a bit too, sice I think not enough people knows it. Sorry for the long comment, but communication is fucking important, specially good one.
O futuro é bilíngue
Estou cansado,… Je suis fatigué de tout 😂
the future is
bilingualcognatesOnly two? Only those particular two?
What are you talking about? You lost me about those two? Which 2?
Bravo ! (no, that’s not english)
