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12-24-2010, 12:03 PM
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Moron in Management
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Quoth RecoveringKinkoid
When we were in Rome, we got into the mindset that our conversations were always private.
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I realise it happens often, especially in countries that are not famous for the linguistic prowess of their inhabitants... I was walking in Venice, where I studied for two years, with a friend, amiably chatting in Italian. When I heard a voice with a strong Glasgow accent pointing out how a certain place stunk, and how no Italian can speak English, and how awful the people are. So I turned around and, in my best half-Italian/half-Glaswegian accent, asked for clarifications. I seldom saw such a sudden chromatic variation in faces.
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Quoth El Pollo Guerrera
Re: languages... I had a co-irker who would sit on the phone and talk to his mother in German about the job, how much work he did (lie), how important he was (lie), how dumb everyone else was (lie), etc... while within earshot of the manager.
He lost that job a little later, but I don't think he ever found out that the manager spoke German fluently...
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Happened here too 
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Quoth Stryker One
And how about 2, for twice the price of 1.
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Oooooooh, would sound SO great!
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12-25-2010, 06:45 PM
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Just some guy
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You ... could understand a strong Glaswegian accent?
Rapscallion
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12-25-2010, 07:22 PM
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Insomniac with Cable TV
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Quoth Rapscallion
You ... could understand a strong Glaswegian accent?
Rapscallion
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I play eve online and chat in teamspeak with people from all over Europe. I can understand glaswegians, and brummys. We also have a biffo [some sort of irish] and my best friend in corp is a geordie. I also play with Norwegians, Swedish, Danes and a couple of Finns. From the further east part, a Russian, a couple of Romanians, a Pole and a Croat.
It can be very funny when something intense happens and a roam heats up and people gt stressed out and revert from regular english to colloquial and accents get heavier.
*sigh* I now have a tendency to tell people wotcha instead of hello now. Pretty soon Ill just give up and sound english.
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12-25-2010, 08:24 PM
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Pune Massacreeist
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Salsa Lake City, UT, USA
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Quoth Rapscallion
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Glaswegian is proper? 
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12-26-2010, 01:15 PM
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It is said that a Geordie consideres a Jock (Glaswegian) to be a Geordie with the brains knocked out.
It is also said that the Jocks say the same thing about the Geordies...
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12-26-2010, 03:15 PM
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Pune Massacreeist
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Quoth Chromatix
It is said that a Geordie consideres a Jock (Glaswegian) to be a Geordie with the brains knocked out.
It is also said that the Jocks say the same thing about the Geordies...
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I've got less brains than you do!
No! I've got less! 
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12-26-2010, 03:31 PM
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Gateway to your goals
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Location: Canada
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When I worked at the hotel, we had a lot of Spanish speaking people from Miami and California come up to stay at our hotel. These were either people on contract with a firm up here, or bikers doing a tour of the Cabot Trail.
One day a woman was making a huge deal about how i should learn to speak Spanish because it was ignorant to speak only one language. I let her finish. Then I calmly explained, that the two official languages of Canada are English and French of both I speak fluently. And that I also speak Italian, near fluently. Plus i know a smattering of Russian, German, and Gaelic. She looked totally stunned. Her friends looked very embarrassed.
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12-29-2010, 02:04 PM
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Moron in Management
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Somewhere under the rainbow...
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Quoth Rapscallion
You ... could understand a strong Glaswegian accent?
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Living in Ayrshire and working in Glasgow, one of the girls in my team has a very VERY strong accent... yes, I usually get most of it.
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Me transmitte sursum, Caledoni! (thanks Marmalady)
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12-29-2010, 05:56 PM
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Dances with Hot Peppers
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I've had this happen a couple times with Japanese when I was in Japan.
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yeah japan's a bit interesting when it comes to language. it was explained to us that there are some establishments that won't accept foreigners... not because of prejudice but because they don't speak the customer's language. it's one of those "saving face" things.
like what happened to one of the guys on my last ship. the restaurant wasn't going to serve him thinking he was just a regular american... until he addressed them in japanese.
oh... and now i'm reminded of my BIL and one of his sisters. she lives in russia and is fluent in the language. she was getting her car fixed and the workers used a local dialect to discuss how they were going to take advantage of her with extra useless services etc.
when they had finished, she told them exactly what she wanted done on the car - in the same dialect. 
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