• kazerniel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 day ago

    not sure what OP meant, but it reminded me of the forced assimilation of peoples in a colonial setting, where a potential scenario is that

    • the grandparents speak their native language fluently, and the dominating language almost not at all
    • the parents speak both the native and the dominating language, but badly
    • the kids speak the dominating language fluently, and the native language almost not at all

    So in that case the parents can be seen as not having a proper native language, because they have two languages they can sorta make work, but can’t fully express nuance and complex thought in either.

    • A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.clEnglish
      11·
      1 day ago

      Then said language is not their native language.

      The nativa language is the first one you learnt as a kid, the one your parents taught you.

      So it is a “Shit americans say” after all.