“Now how many of y’all think BoBo gonna try to convince us that polls don’t matter… of course unless they are trash for Biden & great for Trump!”

Who speaks like this?

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    English is a terrible language, and I say that as a native speaker.

    It’s a language from an isolated island that only the lower class spoke for centuries. For generations English royalty didn’t even speak English.

    So the commoners just did whatever they wanted with it.

    It why we use English words for livestock, but when someone eats it, we use French.

    The people who could speak English were the ones raising the animals, not eating them.

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      It why we use English words for livestock, but when someone eats it, we use French.

      The people who could speak English were the ones raising the animals, not eating them.

      This is amusing but I’m not sure it’s accurate. Even in French (or other Latin languages) the words differ.

      Vache = Boeuf Cochon = Porc Poule = Poulet (as in English, chicken is the same)