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I didn't read any humor in it. It came off as something a stereotypical single language speaker (typically English) would say. Or in other words: 说话像一个男人谁不说第二语

• knodi123 10y ago
  Have you ever heard the old joke about the country bumpkin who argues against bilingual education by saying "If English was good enough for Jesus, then it's good enough for our schoolchildren"?
  • Nadya 10y ago
    I've had the pleasure of speaking to people who have actually said that - or something along the lines. "Why are you studying Japanese? Don't they teach English in Japanese schools? You can just speak English with Japanese people." I enjoy introducing English-only speakers to "The Chaos" by Gerard Nolst Trenité. It gives them a good idea of how terrible English can be - as even people who consider themselves "fluent" in English will struggle through the poem and mispronounce many of the words. ( http://ncf.idallen.com/english.html http://ncf.idallen.com/english.html )
    • emp_zealoth 10y ago
      As a person that is not a native english speaker I find english extremely powerful language, with hundreds of nuanced words that convey different aspects and facets of seemingly same ideas - like emotions! Thesaurus raids can be fun! As well as reading well written, witty prose (#Fuck poetry) I also love how it can compress complex ideas into one word - it actually makes speaking in my native tongue hard, because a lot of such words siply do not have translations (or just are translated into way more general ones)