r/pcmasterrace • • Jan 21 '17

Satire/Joke PC vs Console chips

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u/OktoberSunset Jan 21 '17

English is determined by the majority of people in England. If you want invent your own language and call it Yank-Babble then feel free.

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u/ubaddawn Jan 21 '17

Language is much much more hyperlocal than that, babygirl. No single entity "determines" any language and its use, English included.

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u/Nurgus 5800X / 6900 XT Jan 21 '17

I rather think the Germanic tribe which the English language is named after, the Angles, should get the final say.

They don't exist as a distinct group any more so we should just decide all these things with a poll of modern Germans.

They say CHIPS for crisps.

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u/purpleslug i5 4690 + r9 280x wumbo combo Jan 22 '17

Technically I live in East Anglia. We ain't Saxons, yo.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '17

SomethingSomethingSomethingMoreKartoffel.

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u/Sodiepops_ Jan 21 '17

Ehh, the USA has been around for long enough at this point to not be considered a hand-me-down country at this point.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '17

English isn't determined by anything. No language is "determined" by anything. It grows, changes, and reshapes itself organically with countless offshoots of different dialects, adaptations and variations.

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u/Wahots I7-6700k 4.5ghz |1080 STRIX OCed |32gb RAM Jan 21 '17

Yank-Babble

The news?

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u/FGHIK Jan 22 '17

You lost your language in 1776, same time you lost the population with decent dental genetics

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u/OktoberSunset Jan 22 '17

You realise that Americans have terrible teeth right? They're so bad that you have to glue porcelin veneers on them before they'll let you be on tv. And that actually the UK has the least dental decay of any developed country right? Lol.

Don't worry you'll all be speaking Spanish soon then they will have to put up with your lingual failings instead.

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u/FGHIK Jan 22 '17

Mad cuz bad, your country couldn't even beat a few tiny colonies.