Comment on Bit harsh?

• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  America has 300 different answers for “what language do you speak at home with family”.

  Three hundred.

  You could have 6 different languages per state, with no overlap, just by shuffling people around.

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  • arrow74@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yeah and there are people that speak Basque in Spain. However, you won’t find many that are not Basque speaking that language. The Basque speakers all mostly speak Spanish.

    Same thing in the US. Sure there are people that speak 300 languages, but the majority speak English. They are also spread out.

    Only major exception would be Spanish

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    • cattywampas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      And even in the US there are a pretty good amount of native English speakers who have learned Spanish for this reason.

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  • cattywampas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    True, but that’s out of a nation of 350 million people.

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  • muzzle@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I mean, I understand the spirit, but that’s bit too close to ethnic cleansing.

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• Tja@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You have a different language in each house. If you want to learn or practice a new language, you’ll find speakers in any community.

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  • DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I already don’t talk to the people who speak my language.

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    • Tja@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You could not talk to them in so many more languages! I hear Finnish is particularly good for bot talki g to people.

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• wieson@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You have at least one Native American language in most states.

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