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What was your best decision in life? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For me, it was learning English. Although I do make a few mistakes here and there, I'm mostly perfect on it.

The amount of resources you have access to dramatically increases when you know a universal language. I say dramatically because it made me realize how much my native language lacks when it comes to certain topics. The most obvious one to me was tech and computers. Everybody knows how to use Windows but there are very few resources about stuff beyond Windows. It's actually sad. [insert sad face here]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

It's kind of weird that English became a universal language. There must have been better choices.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Apparently not, or those would've become the universal.

History is what caused it. Though it's pretty fascinating that in Shakespeare's time, English (in England) was considered the commoner's tongue, while the upper classes spoke French.

This is part of Shakespeare's legacy (he wrote and performed in English) , and also shows why the early documents in America are worded the way they are. No American says "four score and 20 years", that's from French.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

No American says "four score and 20 years",

My whole life has been a lie.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I mean the options at the time were English, French and maybe Spanish with Dutch being a distant 4th so... Not really? Nowadays your options are English or Mandarin.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

French and Spanish would have been better.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I don't speak Spanish but I do speak French and I disagree.