teriaavibes 1131 points1132 points 1 month ago

And that is why having a second language comes in handy if you want to piss off some idiot

timinator232 529 points530 points 1 month ago


teriaavibes 99 points100 points 1 month ago

That sounds funny :D

QuasarL 48 points49 points 1 month ago


MeesterBacon 52 points53 points 1 month ago


Okay see you!

daimposter 0 points1 point 1 month ago


chineseouchie 4 points5 points 1 month ago

Worthyness 1 point2 points 1 month ago


heavymcd 8 points9 points 1 month ago




frankyb89 4 points5 points 1 month ago


jimbojangles1987 2 points3 points 1 month ago

I'd like to watch that scene

bearsinthesea 1 point2 points 1 month ago


edit: couldnt find it

jimbojangles1987 0 points1 point 1 month ago

We could call it Youvideo.

Staters 136 points137 points 1 month ago



confused screaming

kdrews34 25 points26 points 1 month ago

What the fuck did you just call me!?

Staters 23 points24 points 1 month ago


kdrews34 11 points12 points 1 month ago

I’m calling the police

rrjamal 8 points9 points 1 month ago

None of those are Korean!

ItsSansom 1 point2 points 1 month ago

Ooh, I'm learning Kanji, mind if I practice from that.

Omae wa tadesu - I understand "You" and I think "Add", but can't get the meaning.

Don't know the next Kanji

Kao no ue? - Up the face?

Edit: Just looked it up. Mistook "Foot" for "To add" and "Head" for "Face. All in all I don't think it was too bad

alours 1 point2 points 1 month ago

Absolute dadboner. What a disrespectful cunt

annul 1 point2 points 1 month ago

Nani the fuck did you just fucking iimasu about watashi, you chiisai bitch desuka? Watashi'll have anata know that watashi graduated top of my class in Nihongo 3, and watashi've been involved in iroirona Nihongo tutoring sessions, and watashi have over sanbyaku perfect test scores. Watashi am trained in kanji, and watashi is the top letter writer in all of southern California. Anata are nothing to watashi but just another weeaboo. Watashi will korosu anata the fuck out with vocabulary the likes of which has neber meen mimasu'd before on this continent, mark watashino fucking words. Anata thinks that anata can get away with hanashimasing that kuso to watashi over the intaaneto? Omou again, fucker. As we hanashimasu, watashi am contacting watashino secret netto of otakus accross the USA, and anatano IP is being traced right now so you better junbishimasu for the ame, ujimushi. The ame that korosu's the pathetic chiisai thing anata calls anatano life. You're fucking shinimashita'd, akachan.

pezezin 0 points1 point 1 month ago

I both want to laugh and kill you, well done.

fzero127 0 points1 point 1 month ago

What the fuck did you just call me!?

Just say a cunt in English, and really watch her lose her mind.

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Staters 0 points1 point 1 month ago


BlatantThrowaway4444 3 points4 points 1 month ago

Wait a minute... That’s not Korean, that’s Japanese, you fraud!

That’s all right though because they are all squiggles and aren’t a real language it can be difficult to tell the squiggles languages apart without studying squiggleology them to some extent. Noodle language.

Staters -1 points0 points 1 month ago


Read it and understand.

heyo_throw_awayo 1 point2 points 1 month ago

Man, and I thought my studying was paying off. I can speak some of the language but I still can't read most of it!

Watashi wa baka desu.


Edited because my phone hates romanji

Staters 1 point2 points 1 month ago

There’s katakanja, hiraganja, and romanji. Thanks u/heyo_throw_awayo

slowest_hour 1 point2 points 1 month ago

katakanja, hiraganja


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hendy846 0 points1 point 1 month ago

My Japanese is a little rusty but thats "yes. I like this!" More or less right?

Staters 0 points1 point 1 month ago


hendy846 0 points1 point 1 month ago

Still got it! I think at least lol 😂

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Ormild 7 points8 points 1 month ago

I don’t think people realize how difficult it is to speak multiple languages. I speak English fluently as I was born in North America. My 2nd languages is elementary level at best (completely illiterate in it). I took Portuguese as well at University and that shit is difficult.

If I could learn more than a few languages with relative ease, I would feel so much more intelligent.

crackadeluxe 5 points6 points 1 month ago

I have a buddy whose father speaks eight languages and he told me once you learn a couple really well, the rest come easier, depending on the language of course.

He is English but speaks also French, Spanish, Portuguese, Patois/Creole, German, and I can't remember the others. However, he doesn't even count Italian and Spanish as separate as he says they are so alike he doesn't feel like it counts as two distinct languages.

He said once you have a couple of languages under your belt, you start to understand languages in a different way, your retention increases, and they start to become easier for you to learn many different ones. This is all assuming they are related of course. Knowing Mandarin won't help you pick up Navaho for instance, not that many try this particular combo.

grubas 1 point2 points 1 month ago

I learned Latin first. That made Spanish and Italian pretty easy to pick up knowing the basic rules and dictionary. German wasn't bad.

But Ancient Greek was how it all started. And I recall none of that.

SpentitinGenoa 2 points3 points 1 month ago

They probably spoke English too lol

twilightmoons 2 points3 points 1 month ago

I don't think it's just language, it's racism.

I'm Polish. My wife is Polish, my kid's first language is Polish. We speak Polish at home, and with each other in public. We speak English fine - my wife has an accent, and I can talk like a Texan when I want to. My three-year old kid can code-switch between English and Polish without any problems.

We are all white, and have NEVER had someone say anything to us, unless they were Polish, too. No Americans have ever demanded we speak English, none have gotten upset at us for speaking Polish around them. I think if we looked anything other than plain white, we'd have been subjected to this.

I don't think this is about language per se, but about racism. These people can't say, "stop being Hispanic/Asian/whatever", so they move instead to "stop speaking that language I can't understand."

It's ridiculous that people are proud of being monolingual, that ignorance is celebrated.

Also - we constantly get asked, "What language are you speaking?" I've started to reply with Mandarin, Inuit, Swahili... anything not European. People will still believe me...

crackadeluxe 0 points1 point 1 month ago

Couldn't agree more. I think it is unwitting, not that it absolves her of anything. Just that it is relevant they are unaware of what they've become, even if they willfully deluded themselves to get there.

You can see the look on her face change to disgust when she describes the Korean language they were speaking, I think she used the word "oriental" (which just proves real life is funnier than fiction). She has an obviously deeply seated hatred for them, but the reason she gives is she doesn't like hearing their language? A language you can't even understand or make any sense of?

I think not, I think she'd rather think she hates the sound of the language, than being a card-carrying racist. She is grasping at straws and the sound of them speaking is the only thing they are doing that could possibly effect her so she went after it blindly end emotionally without ever asking herself if she was maybe kidding herself. I doubt this lady spends five minutes on introspection a month.

delongedoug 2 points3 points 1 month ago

It may be one of the only things I'd be looking forward to if I moved back to the US.

saadakhtar 0 points1 point 1 month ago

Start speaking in tongues. What do these people know..

Wookie301 0 points1 point 1 month ago

Very handy. I’m English. But when I moved to Canada, I made sure to learn Canadian.

cive666 0 points1 point 1 month ago

The Dictator - Helicopter Scene

CuteCuteJames 0 points1 point 1 month ago

My first thought was if I had been there, I would have gone OFF on her in French.

themosey 0 points1 point 1 month ago

The Dictator helicopter scene.

nmgonzo 0 points1 point 1 month ago

Completamente de acuerdo. Que les den por culo.

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itsallaboutthedelta 0 points1 point 1 month ago

That’s why I want to learn more Choctaw, no way will anyone understand me

Wannabkate 0 points1 point 1 month ago

Starts signing all the beautiful words. I like to throw my hands in the air and sign like a I just don't care.

apcolleen 0 points1 point 1 month ago

Id ask if anyone was down for a language learning session. "how do you say 'this coffee is amazing' in your language?' giving the ole biddy zero time of day.

teriaavibes 1 point2 points 1 month ago

in czech: Tohle kafe je užasné. but i dont think you will guess pronunciation from looking on it

PM_ME_UR_LIL_ASS 0 points1 point 1 month ago

Bonjour omelette du fromage !

SargerasIsBack 0 points1 point 1 month ago

Ja pass mal auf

I_CAPE_RUNTS 0 points1 point 1 month ago

We Spanish folk do it to.

Whenever someone white asks me for help when it’s not my job? “no ingles, lo ciento”

But when i see my white boss on payday you better believe my King’s English comes out “excuse me good sir, I do believe it’s time for me to receive proper recompense for services rendered”

It’s a little secret we in the Spanish community use all the time :)

memphoyles -1 points0 points 1 month ago

one of my dreams is to go to the US and start speaking my native language (portuguese) with some friend to piss off this kind of people.

babyProgrammer -1 points0 points 1 month ago

Do you see that that is exactly why they are irritated? They feel like they are being made fun of and have no way of knowing. It's actually kind of humiliating. If you justify her intrepidations by talking smack in a foreign language, then you really are a piece of shit.

Aegisdramon 0 points1 point 1 month ago

Why would they think they're being made fun of? That's purely paranoia. They may as well be irate when they hear people whispering and tell them to speak loudly. How is it humiliating if nobody knows anyway? It just makes them look like assholes to the people that can understand them.

babyProgrammer 0 points1 point 1 month ago

It's generally best to assume the worst. Why speak a foreign language if you can speak English perfectly well? All you're doing is leveraging an angle. This whole thing is fucked. Whatever happened to respecting your elders? The screws get loose and nobody is cutting this lady any slack. We're gonna find ourselves in a pretty shitty situation not too far from now if all we do is shame each other rather than communicate and try to rectify.

Aegisdramon 0 points1 point 1 month ago

Is it? This is such a trivial matter. Who cares if strangers are talking shit about you? Nobody was actually talking about her until she made a commotion, so I'm not sure why you're going on about this. What angle is being leveraged? I'll respect my elders if they treat me courteously and not like I'm some kind of asshole that's talking shit about them (an assumption with no basis) when I was actually just having an innocuous conversation with someone.

You say it's best to assume the worst and then expect strangers to respond civilly if they're suddenly being accused of something they aren't even doing?

And by the way, you realize your saying goes both ways, right? Best to assume the worst, so why not assume she's just a paranoid racist that's being motivated purely by xenophobia?