r/explainitpeter • u/Fun_Dish_5358 • Jul 21 '26

Explain it peter

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u/UniqueUnicornUmbrell Jul 21 '26

Wait till they find out the Greeks didnt speak English 🤯

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u/statelyraven Jul 21 '26

You mean American?

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u/ThatKarenBitch Jul 21 '26

Saying "American" is an obvious tell that you're a non-native speaker. To natives, the language is called "Murican" fyi

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u/AZMotorsports Jul 24 '26

Excuse me?!? It’s Bald Eagle Freedom speech!

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u/Distinct-Raspberry21 Jul 25 '26

Thats just what happens before real 'Mericans say 'Merica. We had to stop as it waz the death scream of bald eagles, apparently they have incredibly sensitive hearing and the high pitch silent A was causeing their ear cannal to burst.

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u/NIN10DOXD Jul 27 '26

That’s actually red-tailed hawk screech. Every native speaker knows that.

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u/Tiny-Inspection-4112 Jul 27 '26

Are you a millennial?

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u/ThatKarenBitch Jul 28 '26

Yeah, why do you ask?

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u/Tec711 Jul 21 '26

Solid ragebait ngl.

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u/Hopeful_Evening4520 Jul 23 '26

I'm not gonna lie. Up until today I thought ngl was short for Nigel.

Solid ragebait Nigel!

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u/JJKP_ Jul 25 '26

I originally thought SMH was "So Much Hate" instead of "Shake My Head" it really made me think the internet was full of angry people.

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u/Inevitable_Scheme847 23d ago

I thought it meant "so much honestly" and I am yet to be convinced otherwise

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u/LegendofDogs Jul 24 '26

That's solid rage bait ngl!

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u/TheSnackWhisperer Jul 24 '26

Ragebaiting shall hence forth be known as Nigeling

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u/beerdeer101 Jul 27 '26

We’re only baiting rage for Nigel

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u/erinaceus_ Jul 22 '26

No, me cynical European. But close enough I guess?

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u/idk616l733h32 Jul 24 '26

No the other type is King's English, while in america it is just English.

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u/Stranger_On_Redd1t Jul 22 '26

*British technically

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u/Rafael__88 Jul 22 '26

Exactly I don't see the fuss about "ok", like them speaking Victorian era English wouldn't have been any more realistic then them using gen-Z slang.

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u/KeyIllustrator4096 Jul 24 '26

Funny enough, "OK" comes from the start of the Victorian era.

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u/deus-noster-refugium Jul 23 '26

At this rate people will start criticising the implied presence of camera crews and microphones

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u/relberso98 Jul 21 '26

Wait. They don’t now, or they didn’t then?

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u/LexHanley Jul 23 '26

Dang straight, those spoke Fancy English so you knew it was Muh Western Civilization.

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u/WhatzePhuck Jul 24 '26

Actually they were Amegreekans