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Originally Posted by Kaptain K
My biggest beef with the "monolingual" is with those who move to another country and refuse to even attempt to learn the language. Instead, they huddle in their conclaves and expect natives to learn their language to communicate.
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Once, at a hotel on Crete, I witnessed an English tourist complaining vigorously to the staff behind the counter - who were discussing the problem and trying to talk to the right people so that her problems could be resolved. She was furious. Anyway, that evening I happened to be near her and overheard her telling another English tourist about it - one phrase I heard I will never forget: "they were there, gabbering in their ****** lingo". Fancy that, eh, Greek people in Greece speaking Greek to each other. What a disgrace.