I used to believe that people from England spoke an ancient language that wasn't English, kind of like how the Irish used to speak Galic, and that the English language was a relatively new language.
A childhood belief about foreign languages
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that, no matter what language other people spoke, that everyone thought in EnglishAnon
- I used to believe that the whole world spoke the same language- English.Anon
- I used to think that adults spoke an entirely different language (not English) when kids weren't around. — Swordfish
- I used to believe that "elemeno P" was a certain kind of "P" found only in the English language. Anon
- I used to believe that if I spoke with whatever accent a language was in, I was speaking that language...— Renae
- I used to believe that english was the only real language and all the others were just made up after.Anon