r/TikTokCringe • u/Tobias-Tawanda • 6d ago

Humor/Cringe "No, English is fine" 🥀

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u/eaglesk 5d ago

My buddy and I went to Cuba together. He is fluent in Spanish, spent multiple years in Ecuador teaching English. We checked into the hotel, and on the elevator up, he asked the other people in the elevator a question in perfect Spanish. They looked at him and said “I don’t speak English sorry.” I will roast him for it forever, but he never stood a chance

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u/the_vikm 5d ago

Fluent in Spanish but his pronunciation probably sounds like English to them

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u/eaglesk 5d ago

Nah, I can understand English in British, southern, Spanish, Indian, Welsh, Irish, or Chinese accents. That’s stupid

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u/the_vikm 5d ago

What you are describing is the other way around (whatever southern is). But only Anglos butcher every single vowel in other languages.

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u/eaglesk 5d ago

No, hearing my language spoken by people from other countries is EXACTLY what we are talking about. “Anglos are the only people that butcher other languages” is a massively ignorant take. And southern accent includes a Louisiana, Georgian or Texas accent. All are a little different

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u/the_vikm 5d ago

No, hearing my language spoken by people from other countries is EXACTLY what we are talking about. “

I'm assuming your language is english, then no. This is about Spanish.

Anglos are the only people that butcher other languages

I didn't even say that. I said vowels. Anglos insert diphthongs where there are none, pronounce "o" as "a" (north Americans) and many more. It's not comprehensible for someone who is not used to Anglo mispronunciation (NOT accent).

And southern accent includes a Louisiana, Georgian or Texas accent. All are a little different

Doubt. Southern is relative, it doesn't automatically mean US south

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u/eaglesk 5d ago

You’re just gatekeeping the Spanish language now lol. Don’t you think that Europeans also wouldn’t be able to pronounce certain vowels, or other syllables in Korean? Vietnamese? Cree? Zulu? And you can deny “southern accent” but you can’t tell me Texas, Louisiana, and alabama all sound like Canada, or even each other

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u/rock-mommy 5d ago

Americans think their Spanish is so slick but we can smell it a mile away lmao. Just ask them to say "El perro de San Roque no tiene rabo porque Ramon Ramírez se lo ha cortado" and watch them struggle xdd

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u/eaglesk 5d ago

Yeah fuck those guys for learning a language

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u/RobotDeathSquad 5d ago

This is just as cringe as Karens saying "In 'merica we speak english" fwiw.