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Unilingual Jokes

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If you speak three languages, you're trilingual. If you speak two languages, you're bilingual. What are you if you speak only one language?

American.

EDIT for any who come across this later...

OK, so I made this post two days ago. Here are some things that surprised me and some that did not:

1. I received several threats of physical violence over this post.

2. So many confidently ignorant comments about "Am...

As an American who only speaks English I can make this joke (it works better irl but whatever):

A: What do you call someone who speaks 3 languages?

B: Trilingual?

A: Yup! What do you call someone who speaks 2 languages?

B: Bilingual.

A: Yes! What do you call someone who speaks one language?

B: Umm, unilingual?

A: No! American!

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