# English Motherfucker, Do You Speak It? "English, Motherfucker, Do You Speak It?" is Samuel L. Jackson's screamed interrogation of a terrified bystander in Quentin Tarantino's 1994 Pulp Fiction. The line moved from theater screens to internet forums by 2008, when early demotivational posters pasted Jules's face next to the quote on Ebaum's World, and by 2010 it was circulating on imageboards as a put-down aimed at bad grammar. ## Origin Quentin Tarantino's third feature Pulp Fiction opened in North America on October 14, 1994[5]. In the apartment scene, Samuel L. Jackson's hitman Jules Winnfield shouts the line at Brett after the panicked victim keeps replying "What?" to every question about who his bosses are. The original scene is on YouTube and is the reference point for every subsequent remix[1]. Earliest documented meme use goes back to April 16, 2008, when an Ebaum's World user uploaded a demotivational poster captioning an image of Jules with a version of the quote[2]. The exact first online appearance of the phrase is not pinned down. - **Platform:** Pulp Fiction (film) / Ebaum's World (first meme use) - **Creator:** Unknown - **Date:** 2008 ## Overview The format typically combines a still from the diner scene (Jules pointing his gun, mid-shout) with a caption aimed at someone who botched a sentence, misread a question or wrote something incomprehensible[6]. Demotivational posters are the archetypal version, with 2008-era examples setting the tone[2], while animal variants also exist, including a 2010 picture of a penguin yelling the line at a seal[3]. Urban Dictionary notes the irony that in the original scene, Jules is not correcting someone's English at all, he's asking a rhetorical question after the man keeps answering "What?" to every question[7]. That irony tends to be lost in meme use, where the line functions as a universal "learn to type" insult[5]. ## How to Use A standard version places a close-up of Jackson's screaming face next to the full line and directs it at a target who wrote something unreadable or kept replying with confusion. Replies on 4chan's /tv/ board often use just the quoted text itself, with no image attached, to signal that a poster's writing is incoherent[4]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is English Motherfucker, Do You Speak It?? It is a catchphrase from Pulp Fiction's apartment scene, used online as an aggressive put-down for bad grammar or confused replies[1]. ### Where did English Motherfucker, Do You Speak It? come from? The line is from Quentin Tarantino's 1994 Pulp Fiction, screamed by Samuel L. Jackson's character Jules at a scared mobster named Brett[1]. ### What does English Motherfucker, Do You Speak It? mean? Online, it works as an insult for anyone whose writing or reply is unintelligible, though in the original scene Jules is asking a rhetorical taunt rather than a grammar correction[7]. ### How do you use English Motherfucker, Do You Speak It?? Common versions include an image macro of Jackson pointing his gun paired with the full quote, demotivational posters, and bare-text replies on imageboards to posts with poor English[6]. ### Is English Motherfucker, Do You Speak It? still popular? It stayed in rotation across 4chan and DeviantArt through the 2010s and is still a classic Pulp Fiction reference[4]. ## References 1. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4n9Qc8yg1M]() 2. [https://www.ebaumsworld.com/images/english/326538/]() 3. [https://demotivation.me/fjsvkrl6kq7npic.html]() 4. [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/14325633/#14325998]() 5. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/english-motherfucker-do-you-speak-it]() 6. [https://www.deviantart.com/h311man/art/English-Motherfucker-DO-YOU-SPEAK-IT-435221973]() 7. [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=English%20Motherfucker%20Do%20You%20Speak%20It]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/english-motherfucker-do-you-speak-it Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library