To be clear, native Germans are far better at English than most Americans are at this point.
honestly from a linguistic perspective this is so painfully inaccurate. you're talking about native speakers here. what you might mean to say is that Germans use English closer to how the Brits use it. that is a defensible statement. but you're doing something different.
just because native speakers change how they use their own language, they aren't doing it "worse". they are adapting their tongue to their needs. one's mother language is deeply tied to identity, and cultural identities grow and shift through time. to say that their identity is "worse" is certainly a statement you could make, but you see the violence inherent in it, right?
who knows, there's plenty of criticisms to make of Americans. i probably have more than the average. but i'm not really comfortable with putting down entire groups of people based on how they use their mother tongue. and i'm certainly not going to try to pass off criticism of a culture as a statement of measurement like "you are bad at X"
oh i believe it. it died down a lot when koreans picked up league of legends though lol. i never got into SC myself but it looks like a ridiculously fun and addictive game
are you kidding me? do you have any idea what they did in the name of the lord to the indigenous people of the new world throughout the 14th century onwards??
You're still American though... if you go abroad and tell people you're German, you're going to be giving a world of false assumptions. Why would it be any different on the internet?
we gotta start broad and move local only as the population grows. so for example instead of Columbus you gotta start with Ohio. maybe Pittsburgh can hang out too
honestly from a linguistic perspective this is so painfully inaccurate. you're talking about native speakers here. what you might mean to say is that Germans use English closer to how the Brits use it. that is a defensible statement. but you're doing something different.
just because native speakers change how they use their own language, they aren't doing it "worse". they are adapting their tongue to their needs. one's mother language is deeply tied to identity, and cultural identities grow and shift through time. to say that their identity is "worse" is certainly a statement you could make, but you see the violence inherent in it, right?
who knows, there's plenty of criticisms to make of Americans. i probably have more than the average. but i'm not really comfortable with putting down entire groups of people based on how they use their mother tongue. and i'm certainly not going to try to pass off criticism of a culture as a statement of measurement like "you are bad at X"