Amazing. In a forum, somebody who claims English is their third language, posted a grammatically somewhat incorrect, but otherwise eloquent thread. In comes the representative of the Greatest Nation, and he goes like this: "If you don't know how to spell words like "boring" and "condescending", use a dictionary. People who cannot spell are the reason why the world is getting dumber one day at a time."
My face fucking dropped. The poster knows THREE languages rather fluently, albeit with mistakes here and there. How many foreign languages do YOU speak, motherfucker?
I get it. English is the language of the trade and if you want to get by in the Western world, you do well to speak the language at least on a communication level. And the thread starter did!
Dumber by the day? DUMBER BY THE DAY?! Fucknuts, if YOU don't instantly know my language, how to spell words in my language and their meaning, according to your logic, you're also among the people who you claim to be the reason of world getting dumber.
I am so baffled and borderline outraged that I just... whut. Whut?
I am striving to be a linguist of sorts, I've this love for languages, and I appreciate anybody who speaks more than one language more or less fluently. I want to punch the critic in the face, hard. Seriously, I bet they can speak their 'americanese' and a few words in 'mexicanese' and be done with it. Fucker.
And where i live is not easy (is almost impossible) to find someone that speak english or norwegian (two languages i'm studying) so is difficult to do a good pratice. Understand a language is different from learning to speak it.
And intelligence is not measured on how many language you speak. There are people that speak 5 language and they still act stupid.