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What’s the best response to “You’re in America. Speak English.”?

by QuestionGuy June 3, 2023, 2:31 pm

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TIL the most honored rank of English chivalry is the Order of Garter. The unique item is worn on the left leg below the knee. Embroidered on the blue velvet is the motto Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense (Shame on Him Who Thinks Evil of It).

by whatilearned June 3, 2023, 11:18 am

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TIL so many Royal English babies died that when Alfred of Great Britain died at age 1 in 1780 there was a policy against mourning the deaths of Royal children under age seven.

by whatilearned June 2, 2023, 9:39 am

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No, you’re just a stupid little kid who mindlessly regurgitates memetic neologistic rhetoric you were exposed to on the Internet because you are incapable of appropriately utilizing the extant English lexicon to articulate and convey valid semantic structures to other sentient beings.

by CopyPastaArchive May 31, 2023, 9:19 am

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TIL that English speakers proposed abbreviating Coordinated Universal Time as CUT. French speakers proposed abbreviating it as TUC (for “temps universel coordonné”). Neither side got what they wanted, as the official abbreviation is “UTC”.

by whatilearned May 30, 2023, 4:39 pm

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Why English is so difficult to learn?

by QuestionGuy May 27, 2023, 5:20 am

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Longest word in English

by CopyPastaArchive May 27, 2023, 3:51 am

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TIL In 1906 Andrew Carnegie formed the Simplified Spelling Board to fix spelling in the English language. Teddy Roosevent was ready to impose their recommendations but he and Carnegie disagreed on how to get the public to adopt. So we’re still stuck with that “d” and “e” in Wednesday.

by whatilearned May 26, 2023, 7:22 pm

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The corporate brand Google has become a verb, you can query a search engine or “Google” it. What other brands have become verbs in English and other languages?

by QuestionGuy May 26, 2023, 3:07 pm

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What other German words, like „angst“ or „kindergarten“ do you use in English?

by QuestionGuy May 23, 2023, 8:13 pm

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English “fuck you”

by CopyPastaArchive May 22, 2023, 6:09 am

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TIL the Low German language is more closely related to English than to Standard German, as Low German and English are classified as North Sea Germanic languages, whereas Standard German is an Elbe Germanic language

by whatilearned May 22, 2023, 3:46 am

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