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emnsk
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if you could change the language of all americans who have english as their primary language (they forget english in the process), what language would you change it to and why

4/5/2023 11:11:39 AM

FroshKiller
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I would not.

4/5/2023 11:27:32 AM

emnsk
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^
my bad

4/5/2023 12:04:32 PM

fatcatt316
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Spanish, so spelling would make sense

4/5/2023 12:12:05 PM

FroshKiller
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Well I mean take English and America off the table. Say I could change the language of all French people who have French as their primary language and that they would forget French in the process. Like...why? What is motivating me to pick anything?

Maybe put it in terms like: A genie curses you. You have to pick a replacement language. You can't not choose because of the power of the genie's curse.

4/5/2023 1:04:06 PM

FroshKiller
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In which case I would be like FUCKING MARTIAN, YOU BLUE SON OF A BITCH

4/5/2023 1:04:36 PM

FroshKiller
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Because why should I make it easy for a fucking genie?

4/5/2023 1:04:58 PM

BigMan157
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pokemon language: people can only communicate by saying their names with varying inflections

4/5/2023 1:23:28 PM

emnsk
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^^^^ See that's an interesting take cause it shows the difference in how people think. Some would not need such a motivation because they would simply want to test the chaos.

Russian? Let's see what happens with this Ukraine thing.

Hebrew? How would QAnon react?

[Edited on April 5, 2023 at 1:26 PM. Reason : .]

4/5/2023 1:26:27 PM

FroshKiller
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Explain Meowth, though.

4/5/2023 1:26:43 PM

BigMan157
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a genie cursed a normal human into a Meowth

4/5/2023 1:27:14 PM

emnsk
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^^^^
interesting cause most americans wont be able to communicate anymore
but a lot of the minority american groups will
what happens from there

4/5/2023 1:30:13 PM

FroshKiller
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need you to show your work on that one

4/5/2023 1:38:17 PM

emnsk
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Quote :
"English is the most common language spoken at home in the United States, with 78 percent of the U.S. population speaking only English."

https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2022/acs/acs-50.html

assuming pokish cannot substitute for english

[Edited on April 5, 2023 at 1:41 PM. Reason : .]

4/5/2023 1:39:53 PM

justinh524
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pig latin

4/5/2023 1:54:33 PM

emnsk
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I remember reading some book as a kid where one character only spoke in pig latin
It was in the fantasy/adventure genre

I have no clue what the name was or what the story was except for the words "moat" and "hay" coming to mind.

4/5/2023 2:09:00 PM

TreeTwista10
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gang signs

4/5/2023 6:16:56 PM

justinh524
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artfay oisesnay

4/5/2023 7:01:45 PM

The Coz
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German, because they are good engineers. Sorry about two World Wars and the Holocaust, though.

English is a Germanic language and quite a few words are the same or similar.

4/5/2023 7:12:22 PM

fatcatt316
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Twin Peaks Black Lodge language

4/6/2023 10:27:24 AM

Bullet
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appy polly loggies droogs, chellovecks, and skitebirds, but Clock-work orange language is zammechat and should be the national language.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:A_Clockwork_Orange

4/6/2023 11:12:58 AM

The Coz
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skitebird is what you'd think.

4/6/2023 11:27:50 AM

justinh524
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If i are going to pick a real language, it would clearly be Welsh

4/6/2023 12:20:24 PM

emnsk
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are you Welsh
or is it just out of pure admiration and respect for Gareth Bale

4/6/2023 12:21:36 PM

justinh524
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No, Welsh is just a ridiculous language and no one should speak it

4/6/2023 12:33:47 PM

emnsk
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https://youtu.be/fvtbdq3WiyU

I like it
reminds me of the Lord of the Rings

4/6/2023 12:45:08 PM

ReceiveDeath
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French is kinda cool

I don't love how it sounds, but it sounds better than German or Spanish, IMO

umm let's all do Romanian, it's kind of nice sounding

4/6/2023 2:12:08 PM

0EPII1
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Russian or Chinese.

Majority of Americans suck at English grammar, punctuation, and spelling; maybe they will be better at the ones I mentioned.

Also, being able to speak the language of your enemy has to be very useful.

4/8/2023 6:25:47 AM

emnsk
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Yeah but then they can speak "our" language too

4/8/2023 11:41:44 AM

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