chat

7976 readers

57 users here now

Chat is a text only community for casual conversation, please keep shitposting to the absolute minimum. This is intended to be a separate space from c/chapotraphouse or the daily megathread. Chat does this by being a long-form community where topics will remain from day to day unlike the megathread, and it is distinct from c/chapotraphouse in that we ask you to engage in this community in a genuine way. Please keep shitposting, bits, and irony to a minimum.

As with all communities posts need to abide by the code of conduct, additionally moderators will remove any posts or comments deemed to be inappropriate.

Thank you and happy chatting!

founded 3 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

These days a lot of kids just speak English (hexbear.net)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

61 comments fedilink hide all child comments

(I mean, at least in the Metropolitan area) Earlier I waited in line at a shop in Helsinki and behind me was a large group of schoolkids, all various people of colour and all speaking American English with each other. It's a fairly common occurrence in Eastern Helsinki and makes you feel like you're in the US or Canada

It's interesting how quick things have developed just since I was a kid

I think it's cool but it seems to cause Finnish boomers enormous existential anxiety of the Great Replacement variety

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Is it really such a bad thing for so many working-class peoples' second language to be a common one? Surely it's a good thing for the working class of many countries to be able to speak directly with each other, rather than through intermediary translators working for media outlets who themselves work just for capitalism. And despite its country of origin, English is a highly adaptable language that lends itself well to a lingua-franca purpose.

Now I'm from a part of the world ( kkkanada ) where repression of indigenous languages was public policy for centuries, with an explicit end-goal of destroying indigenous culture. I'm very aware of that history. I'm speaking strictly about second languages here, I'm not at all advocating for forcing English as a common first language.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It wouldn’t be as big an issue if English wasn’t also a large source of foreign right-wing propaganda

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

imagine with me, if you will, a hundred a thousand a million small-to-middle-sized anti-Murdochs

be the source of foreign left-wing propaganda you want to see in the world

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

The US has been successful with propaganda without the usage of English for decades.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

I'm not saying it's bad- just something I've noticed