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Metal Memes

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Memes. For metal music.

Don't be an ass and try to keep the gatekeeping and whatnot to a minimum. Memes from all sorts of metal genres and bands are welcome here.

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[–] Sylver@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Sometimes native English speakers are less fluent than second-hand speakers of English

[–] KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There is a shockingly high number of Americans whose first language is English but cannot read or write.

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Yeah something like >50% of adults read at less than a 6th grade level.

It's part of why a lot of news articles are dumbed down so these people can comprehend them.