Comment on Why do Americans always presume that everyone speaks English

Voyajer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  But America dumbo!

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• CuddlyCassowary@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And perhaps Brits and Canadians. I’m not sure about their visit numbers though.

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• AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Or anybody in europe who probably speaks english as thats the “world language”

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  • Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Unless they’re from a primarily English speaking country, they’d be unlikely to complain though.

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    • Droggelbecher@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’ve met lots of people who seem to hold the sentiment that if THEY managed to learn English, why can’t EVERYONE ELSE?

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      • Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Sounds like they have something to compensate for. ┐⁠(⁠ ⁠∵⁠ ⁠)⁠┌

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    • AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah they wouldnt complain… except if theyre my grandfather who started complaining in vietnam to a hotel receptionist that they dont speak hungarian, a language about 14 million people speak in the world and the only language it has mutual intelligibility with is spoken by about 10000 people…

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• usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Wait, in that case maybe complaining is a bit justified? Different of course of it’s a place off the beaten path, but if it’s a hotbed of English-speaking tourists then having staff that speak their language seems pretty important.

  Guess it’s really hard to say without more context (story of the internet).

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  • Voyajer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I don’t even know why some native speakers complain about having to deal with broken English when the learner only needs to know a tiny fraction of the language to be intelligible. As long as they have the vocab, grammar is mostly optional.

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