Comments by "Steve Davenport" (@stevedavenport1202) on "Type Ashton" channel.

  1. We are terrible at German because there really isn't an incentive to speak it well.
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  2. In the USA, any system that isn't rabidly pro capitalist, anti working class, antigovernment and super laize fair gets the socialist label...ridiculous
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  3. Yeah, Latin is not a modern language. I think it would be useful if you were a university scholar specializing in linguistics.
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  4. In regards to the geographic reasons for monolingualism in the USA, a native speaker of English could still travel to the border regions using English just fine. Ditto for the parts of Florida that are mainly Spanish speaking.
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  5. W'eve been mind fudged to do so.
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  6. Well, that's normal
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  7. I am an actual American Steve, but got no mechanical aptitude 😀
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  8. This notion that America is multi lingual is interesting. It is more transitory in nature. For example, millions of people in the USA used to speak German, but that has dissapeared as the influx of German immigrants has ceased and the German Americans have been linguistically and culturally assimilated. The reason Spanish seems to have taken a permanent foothold in the USA is that there is a non stop influx of Spanish speaking immigrants who "replace" the Hispanic Americans who have assimilated. As to the monlingual Spanish speakers in the border regions, this is very true. They are adult immigrants from Mexico who have a very large community of Spanish speakers to choose from and get all of their needs met in Spanish....jobs, friends, shopping, doctors, media, travel, all in Spanish.
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