• dohpaz42@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I want to say this was a joke in the 80s or 90s where immigrants would learn English from the likes of watching John Wayne movies.

    Though, as an aside, I would love to meet more non-native English speakers who learned English by watching the likes of Pauline Shore.

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      3 months ago

      There is a joke in The Good Place like this. One of the characters is describing her life “abandoned by my parents” “adopted by parents who died, yadda, yadda, yadda” “saved the human race, yadda, yadda, yadda”. She goes through a few of those and the penultimate thing she says is “learned english watching Seinfeld”.

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        3 months ago

        I mean who doesn’t like a good “yada yada yada”. I feel like more people should do that; especially at work. 😏