What do you call someone who speaks two languages? Bilingual. What do you call someone who speaks only one language? An American. The question is pretty much how Americans traveling abroad greet the locals.
Saying "Do you speak English?" can either get you around or get you kidnapped, tortured, killed and having your family discover your fate on CNN anywhere around the world. Asking the question is ok in a place where you see a McDonald's. It is not ok and you should avoid places where electricity and potable water are a luxury to ask the question.
by DonnieMacks August 13, 2008
A question you ask someone to determine if "Jawn" is a part of their regular vocabulary, and thus whether they speak in an Eastern Pennsylvanian dialect. Jawn is a slang pronoun that originated in Philly. It can be used to refer to any person, place, or thing.
Billy: "Do you speak Jawn?"
Bob: "What the fuck is a John?"
Billy: "Clearly you don't. I guess you're not from Philly."
Bob: "What the fuck is a John?"
Billy: "Clearly you don't. I guess you're not from Philly."
by kgm/s July 1, 2021
by hoioindweMSA January 24, 2007
"Remember when we went to DC?"
"Shhh, we do not speak of that year."
"What year?"
"THE YEAR WE DO NOT SPEAK OF."
"Shhh, we do not speak of that year."
"What year?"
"THE YEAR WE DO NOT SPEAK OF."
by bl33d3r December 22, 2016
Spoken, usually screamed, at someone who has failed to speak or write understandable English. Sometimes bowdlerized as "English, do you speak it?" or misquoted as "English, do you speak it, motherfucker?"
Arguably the most famous line from the iconic 1994 film Pulp Fiction. Ironically, the original line was not asked in response to someone speaking incorrect English, but asked by Samuel L. Jackson's character as a rhetorical question to whether or not a frightened man spoke English at all after the man repeatedly said "what?" to his questions.
Arguably the most famous line from the iconic 1994 film Pulp Fiction. Ironically, the original line was not asked in response to someone speaking incorrect English, but asked by Samuel L. Jackson's character as a rhetorical question to whether or not a frightened man spoke English at all after the man repeatedly said "what?" to his questions.
"What country you from?"
"What?"
"'What' aint no country I ever heard of! They speak English in 'what'?"
"What?"
"English, motherfucker, do you speak it?"
"What?"
"'What' aint no country I ever heard of! They speak English in 'what'?"
"What?"
"English, motherfucker, do you speak it?"
by BlackDoomShadow December 4, 2008
by Animalzap August 21, 2009
by THeLJondoner August 30, 2023