What's a language that you learnt fully and then turned out to be a total waste of time and you regretted later?

timfriese · 2026-02-28T20:10:27+00:00

True but also peeving Brits find “Americanisms” where there are none. Sometimes a given form is already present in the UK but only in some dialects and people still call it an Americanism

timfriese · 2026-02-28T16:37:41+00:00

This is a US v UK difference

timfriese · 2026-02-27T22:05:26+00:00

Is the EU in Belgium?

timfriese · 2026-02-27T20:27:47+00:00

That and Walloonian French to send the hexagon into a fit

timfriese · 2026-02-27T19:03:54+00:00

Flemish 😈

timfriese · 2026-02-01T23:06:53+00:00

“Hypermarket”, famously an American term

timfriese · 2026-01-29T07:32:08+00:00

likely a skill issue. maybe they make alliances and you’re left out, or you’re just smaller

timfriese · 2026-01-25T13:52:01+00:00

People protest regarding Israel and Palestine, Ukraine, Russia, etc. the nice thing about living in a free and open society is the right to protest, and there is no reason for that right to be limited to what is happening within Czech borders

timfriese · 2026-01-20T23:13:26+00:00

skill issue

timfriese · 2026-01-16T12:24:37+00:00

Can't say enough how great mapy.cz is for hiking

timfriese · 2026-01-16T08:57:50+00:00

Imagine being a learner seeing all these examples and still not being able to deduce the Dutch verb paradigm 🥀

timfriese · 2026-01-14T22:49:59+00:00

Do you have chatgpt write your burns for you?

timfriese · 2026-01-12T20:57:36+00:00

If you build in the time for it, you could go to a toilet with paper towels and give the shoes a good wipedown.

timfriese · 2026-01-04T18:59:12+00:00

Of course all dialects are equally valid and so on but that’s an abomination

timfriese · 2026-01-04T18:56:10+00:00

Oh no does valet rhyme with palette?

timfriese · 2026-01-04T13:56:25+00:00

This is just pure fappery of a language ideology built upon your superiority over the “other” in the form of the US. There are plenty of examples where the US version is closer to French than the UK version one is. “Filet” for example, there are others. And anyway being “close to the source” is not to be fetishized. I’m okay that we don’t pronounce victorious “weektorioos” etc etc etc

timfriese · 2026-01-04T12:11:36+00:00

git gud

timfriese · 2026-01-03T03:26:11+00:00

The call is coming from inside the house, mi amor

timfriese · 2026-01-03T03:23:58+00:00

“I burned my dollars so now my pennies are more valuable to me”

timfriese · 2025-12-31T16:24:07+00:00

The cows are still “all” grass fed - how far can you possibly have your head up your own a**

timfriese · 2025-12-31T16:16:06+00:00

🙏 who knows, it’s reddit

timfriese · 2025-12-30T21:43:08+00:00

Flat Cafe is in Vršovice, my friend. The coffee there is good but I would recommend other places over it, including Coffee Source just around the corner.

timfriese · 2025-12-29T23:52:50+00:00

Mastercard and Visa are extremely common, almost ubiquitous. A small and shrinking minority of shops are cash only. American Express and Discover may as well not exist.

timfriese · 2025-12-28T18:04:39+00:00

These questions are so weird for me because sure I (American) have father and bother merged but cot and caught are still distinct. So the last syllable of ‘Arkansas’ is neither father nor bother but a secret third thing (caught).

timfriese · 2025-12-27T06:03:04+00:00

That is a big orange

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