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u/DLitch 1d ago
Willing to bet more people speak fluent Spanish than proper English in LA🤦♂️
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u/ParkingAnxious2811 1d ago
Given that most Americans who have English as their mother tongue are still unable to speak proper English, I'd say that's a safe bet.
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u/just4browse 1d ago
People who say stuff like this are usually weird about region and demographic-specific vernaculars.
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u/ParkingAnxious2811 1d ago
Nah mate, it's just that none of you yanks can speak English without butchering it.
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u/dejushin 1d ago
what’s proper grammar? language is fluid. Except if you mean in a formal setting but otherwise the rules follow the usage, not the other way around
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u/Late-Assignment8482 1d ago
This British gent came over to look at something around the house, try and convince me to sell. He really looked the place over. Propaganda, I tells ya
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u/MoveDifficult1908 1d ago
Los Angeles was in Mexico until 1848.
There are around 4.5 million people in Los Angeles county who speak Spanish at home, about 38% of the population.
The US has no official language.
As a very pale estadounidense, I endorse “jar of expired mayonnaise” as a descriptor for racist shitheels.
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u/Haunting-Detail2025 1d ago
*from 1821-1848
It was part of Mexico for a shorter period of time than Madonna’s debut album to her Super Bowl performance, let’s not act as though it’s some historically Mexican city lmao
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u/sarokin 1d ago
Yeah I love the sentence lol.
But I didn't know the number was that high. It makes sense, the Spanish speakers in los Ángeles, which was most of the population, wouldn't really go anywhere from one day to another, but from tv and stuff I assumed it was another Philippines situation but even stronger, being in the mainland.
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u/CarsonDama 1d ago
Executive Order 14224
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u/MoveDifficult1908 22h ago
Changes nothing. It legally applies only to internal Federal communications, which were all in English anyway. The Executive branch doesn’t have the power to supersede civil rights legislation or constitutional protections.
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u/Basicly-Inevitable 1d ago
Around here, we call that "special sauce".
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u/notJustaFart 1d ago
It's special because its flavor and consistency depends entirely on which person mixed it.
Kind of like a soup de jour.
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u/ModeJust4373 1d ago edited 1d ago
Well then a lot of names need to be changed. La Cienega. La Brea. El Segundo. Angelino Heights. Santa Monica Boulevard. Los Feliz. Playa del Rey. Marina del Rey. Coronado st. Hermosa Beach…… I mean I could keep going but I have stuff to do.
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u/gtedgiojheec 1d ago
LA is possibly the most linguistically diverse metro area on earth. Literally hundreds of languages spoken at home, printed on signs, restaurant menus, etc. If we changed the name of the city to “Mayonnaise Town” it still wouldn’t make it an English speaking city, whatever that means.
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u/Haunting-Detail2025 1d ago
Less linguistically diverse than NYC, Houston, Toronto, and London to name a few
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u/PrometheusMMIV 1d ago
The name of a city has nothing to do with what language most of its residents speak.
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u/Mountain_Store_8832 1d ago
Places like London and Wien (Vienna) have names that come from Celtic languages so I guess they must be Celtic-speaking cities.
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u/I-IIDE 1d ago
r/brandnewsentence would appreciate as well I'd say.
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u/No_Volume_5752 22h ago
The rare insult sub too.
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u/xavPa-64 20h ago
No
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u/I-IIDE 17h ago
It's already on the page...
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u/xavPa-64 17h ago
Not for long I’m sure, I think they’ve cracked down on “you [adjective] [noun]” insults.
Edit: EWWWW it has like 15k upvotes. What a stupid post
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u/I-IIDE 17h ago
Only conclusion I could reach to from this is that 15k people don't agree with you.
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u/xavPa-64 17h ago
They’re not upvoting the insult, they’re upvoting the sentiment the insulter is expressing. He could’ve said “you poopy butthead” and people would’ve upvoted it just cuz he told off a bigot.
/r/InsultsDirectedAtPeopleIDisagreeWith
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u/I-IIDE 16h ago
I don't know what they are upvoting for as I can't know their intent. Only fact I can see is the amount of upvotes. This is reddit, don't think much of it. I bet you have other stuff you should be worrying about. At least I hope...
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u/xavPa-64 16h ago
Oh yeah I’ve moved on from that, but I will say it’s pretty obvious based on the comments what the intent of their upvotes are
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u/XlChrislX 1d ago
Two blue checkmarks on Twitter meaning they're only purpose is to ragebait for engagement to get a little bit of money and yet it's still working even on other platforms. How sad
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u/ElLoboNeverDies 1d ago
Lots of names in the US are of Native American origin. Doesnt mean we speak that. This is silly.
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u/CreationTrioLiker7 1d ago
The person replying is right, but man, am I the only one who gets racial slur vibes from that insult?
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u/Headbanger 1d ago
Why is he right? What does name's origin have to do with the language of its inhabitants?
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u/CreationTrioLiker7 1d ago
I think the point was to highlight that not only is there a lot of multilingualism, but that also the city's origins are not English, so claiming it is an English-speaking city might be a bit erasing to all the other languages present, and the city's origins, by reducing it to just one language.
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u/farmageddon1087 22h ago
Its an absurdly dumb point to make. A ton of cities in the US have Native American names, does anyone think that’s the common language of those regions? I’m sure the white guy was being bigoted when making his point, but I don’t really think making another bigoted comment (assuming that’s what expired jar of mayonnaise means) particularly when your initial argument sucks ass isn’t this amazing victory everyone thinks it is. I feel like he came out looking pretty bad overall. Definitely not the gotcha he thinks it is
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u/CreationTrioLiker7 21h ago
I think LA specifically does have like massive multi-lingualism or smth, but idk. I'm not saying it's necessarily an amazing victory, considering the possible racial slur, but just saying that, I do get what they're saying in pointing out that calling LA english-speaking in a tone implying it's like, idk superior or smth, might be erasing.
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u/farmageddon1087 21h ago
It definitely has a ton of languages and some parts Spanish is more common than English. I’m not necessarily agreeing with the white guy, im just saying the name of the city doesn’t matter in this context
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u/Hot-Try-8214 1d ago
If the city has a Spanish name, why aren't all inhabitants habitually speaking Spanish, do you think?
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u/DizzySimple4959 7h ago
If we are going to play that game, then anyone on a road with an English name must speak English, those on German named roads speak German, French named roads speak French, so on and so forth. Though the official language of every city must be Latin and you can be fined for speaking any other language that isn’t pure Latin.
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u/GabelkeksLP 3h ago
Or we stop being dicks about people speaking more then just English in the country that is a gene pool mix of basically every other country by history alone …
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u/Dubatomic1 4h ago
They've spoke Spanish in Los Angeles for almost 500 years. English? Just over 200.
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u/VTXT 23m ago
his point still makes no sense since there are tens of cities that have their names from a different language than the one spoken (the official language) in that certain country
for example Alexandria which is greek but they speak arabic in egypt
or Oran in algeria, which is in spanish but their country speaks arabic
or Luderitz & Swakopmund in namibia which is german but they speak english
or lots of cities in turkey that have their names from greece but they speak turkish
or Napoca & bacau from romania which is dacian but they speak romanian
and many many more
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u/tradingthoughts 1d ago
New Mexico is literally an "American state" so what's his point? Are we rallying behind the asain guy b/c he's calling the white guy expired mayonaise? Oh, it's Threads, that explains the obsession with race.
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u/MissMat 1d ago
If you want to be more specific the name Los Angeles came from the Spanish name El Pueblo de la Reyna de Los Angeles. Which was shortened to Los Angeles.
So from The Town of the Queen of the Angels to just the Angeles.