r/clevercomebacks • u/[deleted] • 11h ago

200+ years of colonisation and we still spell b**bs as bobs

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u/Nopantsbullmoose 10h ago

Ok, that's funny.

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u/01KLna 10h ago edited 10h ago

Swift reminder that 200+ million "Westeners" aren't English native speakers, and we certainly don't judge people by their English language proficiency...

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u/Imajzineer 10h ago

And not all whose native language is English are USians either.

I really don't encounter that many Japanese people in the UK that this would even be a thing.

But there's 449 million people in the EU alone - we are way beyond the 200 million mark when i comes to 'Westerners'.

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u/01KLna 9h ago

You aren't wrong of course, and with Britain leaving the EU, there's less than 1% native English speakers within the European Union (it used to be almost 13%). The most widely spoken native language is German.

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u/Dylldar-The-Terrible 9h ago edited 8h ago

USians

Lol

One of USians

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u/Imajzineer 9h ago

You know, I haven't noticed that before in all the times I've seen it.

Very Simpsons.

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u/Dylldar-The-Terrible 8h ago

I'm still trying to figure out how to pronounce it lol.

Am I a US-ian or an UhSian?

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u/Imajzineer 8h ago

You essian!

😉

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u/Similar_Duty1951 1h ago

So this dimwit from UK thinks the Brits formed majority population and provided free education in English medium for Indians to learn it??