Sprechen die English?

Si, esattamente chewbacca.

Chewbacca ?

Och, Callistemon, there's naethin anti Scots aboot Parliamo Glasgow. The great Stanley Baxter was having a bit of fun at the expense of a BBC programme, 'Parliamo Italiano.' We Scots understood it and enjoyed it.

Chewbacca

Is it beyond the realms of possibility that with so much misery and anxiety in the world right now, that those of us who still possess a sense of humour, might be allowed to enjoy a smile at this, without the perpetually offended amongst us hoiking their bosoms up and wagging their finger at us?

Agreed

ditto Chewbacca ??

Is it beyond the realms of possibility that with so much misery and anxiety in the world right now, that those of us who still possess a sense of humour, might be allowed to enjoy a smile at this, without the perpetually offended amongst us hoiking their bosoms up and wagging their finger at us?

Jah. Naturellement. Ein petit bissen.

Actually I feel I need to add to the chagrin. It looks like they're making fun of the beautiful French language here too.
replasing "th" with "z" in point 4 is not something Germans do, but the French. Germans would replace it with "d".
But am I bo^vv^ered? Not in the slightest!

I didn't notice that!

The subtitles on Elegran's video are so inaccutate, it makes it even funnier.

The purist in me can't bear the awful German.
Sprechen sie Englisch?

But we are all speaking some German, aren't we.
English is an amalgam, a mongrel language.

I know just fine what I mean, thanks.

Call - if you really don't know the difference between Stanley Baxter making comedy out of the Glasgow accent, and a dopey joke then ends up with a reference to Germans wanting us all to speak German then there's not much to be said about that. But I suspect you know fine.

As for trying to pretend its an amusing take on how languages develop, well in that well worn phrase often used in Scotland, Dinna try an' be cute. Disnae suit ye.

Oh dear Rufus you did try to bring a bit of humour into the day, regrettably the humour went over many heads!

I was laughing at Elegran's link but that must be anti-Scottish.

It's not anti-German, it's an amusing take on how languages develop:
By linguist criteria English is more similar to German, both belong in the West Germanic languages and its vocabulary has been influenced by other Germanic languages as well

I've mostly given up commenting on xenophobic posts posing as humour, but I just thought I'd lend Amber Spyglass and geekesse my support.

Achtung!

And geekesse - who appears to find so much on GN distasteful.

Oh goodness me, there was me thinking that much of English derived from German and English was morphing back into German again.

Oh lighten up AmberSpyglass do.

I detect an undertone of anti-German sentiment is this which I find distasteful. Cartoon stereotyping of Germans in this way by making fun of their language may have been amusing in the middle of the last century, but it has no place now.

Why?

Oh grow up.

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Elegran very funny ? - it reminded me of an encounter I had with a Glesca Granny overseas - I thought she was Serbian.

Sorry, Rufus, you are not quite up-to-date. That was pre-Brexit, English is not now so welcome. The official EU language is now to be Glesca, as in the video below.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0rgETg2Hoo

Zer got, I tenk.