Hysterically Stupid Statements

[Balladeer08]

In a coffee shop yesterday, a lady was complaining about foreigners coming to the USA and not learning English. Then she dropped this linguistic bomb:

"English is the Lingua Franca of the world."

Merde!


If you've heard something else this amazingly dumb, please share it.

 

[Lancecastor]

I heard about a 'tard who started a really stupid thread on the GB.

http://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?p=65132655#post65132655

 

[bg23]

In a coffee shop yesterday, a lady was complaining about foreigners coming to the USA and not learning English. Then she dropped this linguistic bomb:

"English is the Lingua Franca of the world."

Merde!


If you've heard something else this amazingly dumb, please share it.

Do you know what a Lingua Franca is? It's probably not the most ACCURATE of statements but calling it hysterically stupid is an incredible reach.

 

[dolf]

my mother, on the subject of my nipple piercings:

you could lose your whole breast!!!1

 

[dolf]

Do you know what a Lingua Franca is? It's probably not the most ACCURATE of statements but calling it hysterically stupid is an incredible reach.

ironic rather than hysterical. hysterically ironic.

 

[Balladeer08]

Do you know what a Lingua Franca is? It's probably not the most ACCURATE of statements but calling it hysterically stupid is an incredible reach.

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1670-16801670-80; < Italian: literally, Frankish tongue


It has come to mean a more formal kind of Pidgin language, but the etymology of the phrase is what makes it staggering.

Oh, and yes, I do know what it means.

It's almost as if it were my native lingua franca. 8)

 

[Balladeer08]

my mother, on the subject of my nipple piercings:

you could lose your whole breast!!!1

Could she have been saying "hole breast", and you just heard it as "whole"? 8)

Either way, it would be a tragedy to lose one. Probably make you lean to one side or something. 8)

 

[RobDownSouth]

my mother, on the subject of my nipple piercings:

you could lose your whole breast!!!1

That sounds like something a mother would say!

 

[bg23]

Origin Expand
1670-16801670-80; < Italian: literally, Frankish tongue


It has come to mean a more formal kind of Pidgin language, but the etymology of the phrase is what makes it staggering.

Oh, and yes, I do know what it means.

It's almost as if it were my native lingua franca. 8)

That makes zero sense. A lingua franca is a bridge language. A "native bridge language" is an oxymoron.

"The term lingua franca, Italian for "Frankish language", is from a particular example, Mediterranean Lingua Franca. Lingua Franca was a mixed language composed mostly (80%) of Italian with a broad vocabulary drawn from Old French, Greek, Arabic, Portuguese, Occitan and Spanish."

So your native bridge language is Italian with old french, greek arabic and portugese, is it? HOW FASCINATING.


This is what a lingua franca actually is:

A lingua franca (English plural lingua francas, although the pseudo-Latin form linguae francae is also seen) is a language systematically used to make communication possible between people not sharing a first language, in particular when it is a third language, distinct from both speakers' first languages. Examples of lingua francas are numerous, and exist on every continent. The most obvious modern example is English, which is the current dominant lingua franca of international business, science, technology and aviation. There are many other lingua francas centralized on particular regions, such as Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish.

 

[dolf]

That sounds like something a mother would say!

i'm a mother! and I tend to say 'did you take my lube? I wish you'd bloody ask first! perverts.'

 

[bg23]

ironic rather than hysterical. hysterically ironic.

Yes. You know what's a hysterically stupid statement? "Damn foreigners not learning English!"

You know what's not a hysterically stupid statement? "Much of the world uses English as a bridge language."

 

[Balladeer08]

That makes zero sense.

Hence the smiley face.

Even with the emoticon as a hint, you still didn't get it.

Wake up on the wrong side of the world this morning?

 

[dolf]

Hence the smiley face.

Even with the emoticon as a hint, you still didn't get it.

Wake up on the wrong side of the world this morning?

the poor girl keeps waking up in America *shudder*

 

[bg23]

Hence the smiley face.

Even with the emoticon as a hint, you still didn't get it.

Wake up on the wrong side of the world this morning?

ah yes, the old "it was just a joke!" cry when called on dumb statements.

its pretty obvious you just didn't actually understand the meaning of the term.

very good. carry on.

 

[Lancecastor]

my mother, on the subject of my nipple piercings:

you could lose your whole breast!!!1

Tell her not to worry.

They're in good hands here.

 

[rosco rathbone]

In a coffee shop yesterday, a lady was complaining about foreigners coming to the USA and not learning English. Then she dropped this linguistic bomb:

"English is the Lingua Franca of the world."

Merde!


If you've heard something else this amazingly dumb, please share it.

English actually is, the lingua franca, of the world.

 

[Sean]

English actually is, the lingua franca, of the world.

http://www.johndcook.com/wordmath2.png

 

[rosco rathbone]

http://www.johndcook.com/wordmath2.png

Maths cannot be the lingua franca of the world. How do you say "Get my luggage, boy!", or "take me to the pleasure district!" or "more rum for my men" in maths?

 

[Libsam]

One language to control them all!

 

[Balladeer08]

http://www.johndcook.com/wordmath2.png

And there was light!

 

[evesdream]

Maths cannot be the lingua franca of the world. How do you say "Get my luggage, boy!", or "take me to the pleasure district!" or "more rum for my men" in maths?

$$$$$

edit to add: + (.)(.) +

 

[Balladeer08]

$$$$$

edit to add: + (.)(.) +

Both of those are pretty universally understood. 8)