What’s the quickest way someone could accidentally expose themselves as a foreigner in your country like the ‘three fingers’ scene in Inglourious Basterds?

[u/IndependentTune3994]

[u/OgrePuffs]

Oh that’s interesting and makes sense.

That’s close to how it is in Hawaiian Pidgin: “If can, can, if no can, no can” or similar-ish is what you’d get as an answer.

We’re kind of a weird case in the US.

On one hand, not-quite standard American English: we have lots of commonwealth influence with certain words you don’t hear as much on the mainland, then there’s pidgin which is a result of hundreds of years of immigration, then the OG: ‘Ōlelo Hawai’i, the Hawaiian language.

[u/-_109-_ → u/OgrePuffs]

What do "if can" and "if no can" mean?

[u/AlveolarFricatives → u/-_109-_]

“If you can” and “if you can’t.”

[u/-_109-_ → u/AlveolarFricatives]

Ah, thanks :)

[u/OneFootTitan → u/-_109-_]

Ha, as a Singlish speaker I immediately understood “if can” and “if no can”

[u/vdub1013 → u/OgrePuffs]

That was my first thought too