Thanks to a certain fun time from 1933 to 1945. We had china towns before that.

they live in San Francisco. They call themselves “ethnically German” because they are too ashamed to admit they are actually from Alabama

This is 100% the case.

That’s more likely the case, but I’d like to imagine they’re the children of Nazi race scientists that got Operation Paperclip’d into the US, hence their sub Hank Hill levels of understanding

A comment in the thread said that they are actually from Alabama

That won’t work because they said they didn’t want to send their son to a communist state 😹😹😹

Probably would be more accurate to say “sent my kid to Madagascar to learn Norwegian Sign Language”

Interslavic is cool, I should go back to learning it…

True, I just know how to read Cyrillic and can fill out the rest through a bit of thinking.

but if he did that he would already know that Chinese is not spoken in Japan