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Cake day: June 27th, 2023

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  • I’m surprised Philippines isn’t regarded as over 90% in Asia they are second only to Singapore which indeed has a blue dot.

    I think it depends on how strict a definition you put on it. According to pna.gov.ph less than 9% of adults dont use English at all. And I guess this doesn’t include taglish, because I dont think they mean mixing the word shorts into the language is using English

    So I guess its a matter of definition, if you can afford to go to school nearly everyone can speak English, if you can’t go to school English proficiency drops but over 90% at least use English sometimes. As from 4th grade they primarily use English to teach in school for most subjects

    At least in Norway and Iceland (yes nearly other European countries as well) translate Disney movies to their local language. The Philippines doesn’t, they serve English as English is one of the two official languages and has been since it was US territory.

    I was surprised when sitting in the back of the class of first grade in Norway that most kids wasn’t able to use English conversationally (yet), but that is just my ignorance, and rather I should be surprised to see most kids knew basic words in English instead. But its hard to have perspective when my multilingual daughter had conversational English from 2 years



  • This is exactly what I am trying to explain to my wife when she calls a wasp a bumblebee in front of our daughter.

    Apes are monkeys no matter shat they say in the planet of the apes remake because apes are a subgroup of monkeys, and whales are fish because fish doesn’t mean anything, and bamboo is wood because wood doesn’t mean anything. And a banana is not a tree, but I’d really like to taste a banana flower I heard it’s good















  • I dont think it was an intentional setup, its was a rookie cop (for real, he was new) who arrested the first person he found where one person from the public claimed it was the perpetrator, and he didn’t marandise him, searched his bag without him bring able to see it. And didn’t find a gun. Arrested him (remember I said didn’t marandise), called someone from new York, who came down 6 hours later, then they found a gun in his bag.

    Yes Luigi was at a hostel in new York the day of the shooting. This is the only link they have. Similar, not the same looking jacket, other clothes were not the same. Was in the same city.

    I dont believe Luigi was the shooter. If he was he woudlnt bring a gun to McDonald’s