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Hegseth declares, 'I only speak American' to room full of foreign leaders (www.irishstar.com)

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[–] Slovene@feddit.nl 22 points 2 days ago (2 children)

What language were they speaking in England before they stole one from USA?

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 days ago

Before or after the French took over in 1066?

[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

England? Well there was Cornish and Manx. Cornish went extinct in the 18th century but the last monoglot speaker died in the 17th century.

I am not counting Welsh since that is in Wales... And Scots Gaelic is in Scotland, its own country.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The Scots and Irish keep Gaelic alive just to piss off the British.

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well that, but also it's a really fucking cool language

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 13 hours ago

Except the orthography, which works but is still conceptually insane.