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 Manitou
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 Guys when you go in a foreign country where they don't speak english 
#635121 - 08/18/12 06:00 PM (12 years, 4 months ago) |
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PLEASE, if you check in a hotel, DO NOT FUCKIN ASK IF THE FRONTDESK STAFF SPEAKS ENGLISH, IT IS PRETTY FUCKIN SURE THEY CAN.
I wanna punch about 35 ontarians in the throat at the moment
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Re: Guys when you go in a foreign country where they don't speak english [Re: Manitou]
#635123 - 08/18/12 06:47 PM (12 years, 4 months ago) |
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You speak english bro?
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Re: Guys when you go in a foreign country where they don't speak english [Re: DungenessDank]
#635141 - 08/18/12 08:56 PM (12 years, 4 months ago) |
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lol sorry for this thread, I guess I am kinda tired. I think it sounds a bit racist to be honest, it wasnt my intention, I just kinda hear that question at least 200 times during a shift, it gets kinda annoying.
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Pour un instant, j'ai respiré très fort
Ça m'a permis de visiter mon corps
Des inconnus vivent en roi chez moi
Moi qui avait accepté leurs lois
J'ai perdu mon temps à gagner du temps
J'ai besoin de me trouver une histoire à me conter
Pour instant j'ai oublié mon nom
Harmonium - Pour un instant
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Re: Guys when you go in a foreign country where they don't speak english [Re: Manitou]
#635144 - 08/18/12 09:18 PM (12 years, 4 months ago) |
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Wouldn't this problem be avoided if the employees greeted the guests initially
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Re: Guys when you go in a foreign country where they don't speak english [Re: King Koopa]
#635148 - 08/18/12 09:31 PM (12 years, 4 months ago) |
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I always do, but here we speak french, so I greet people in french, but like even with phonecalls, my speech is most likely in french, but theres an english part at the end, and they ALWAYS do "wow do you speak english?" ...
I mean here it is pretty much a basic that you have to speak english if you wanna work in a hotel, well at least at the frontdesk, I am pretty sure it is like that everywhere also, as it is probably the most used language by tourists, even if they are from another country that doesnt speak english at the first place. But for real, even when I greet the people in english (because I heard them speak before), or even if they did hear me speak entirely in english with another customer just before them, they STILL have to ask it...
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Pour un instant, j'ai respiré très fort
Ça m'a permis de visiter mon corps
Des inconnus vivent en roi chez moi
Moi qui avait accepté leurs lois
J'ai perdu mon temps à gagner du temps
J'ai besoin de me trouver une histoire à me conter
Pour instant j'ai oublié mon nom
Harmonium - Pour un instant
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Re: Guys when you go in a foreign country where they don't speak english [Re: Manitou]
#635149 - 08/18/12 09:36 PM (12 years, 4 months ago) |
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So you do or do not speak english 
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Re: Guys when you go in a foreign country where they don't speak english [Re: drawde]
#635150 - 08/18/12 09:42 PM (12 years, 4 months ago) |
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I speak Québécois crisse!
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Pour un instant, j'ai respiré très fort
Ça m'a permis de visiter mon corps
Des inconnus vivent en roi chez moi
Moi qui avait accepté leurs lois
J'ai perdu mon temps à gagner du temps
J'ai besoin de me trouver une histoire à me conter
Pour instant j'ai oublié mon nom
Harmonium - Pour un instant
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Re: Guys when you go in a foreign country where they don't speak english [Re: Manitou]
#635151 - 08/18/12 09:50 PM (12 years, 4 months ago) |
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Englais see vou play
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The amount of pot that Gask smokes is equivalent to a guy shooting heroin on weekends
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Re: Guys when you go in a foreign country where they don't speak english [Re: drawde]
#635152 - 08/18/12 09:52 PM (12 years, 4 months ago) |
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Pour un instant, j'ai respiré très fort
Ça m'a permis de visiter mon corps
Des inconnus vivent en roi chez moi
Moi qui avait accepté leurs lois
J'ai perdu mon temps à gagner du temps
J'ai besoin de me trouver une histoire à me conter
Pour instant j'ai oublié mon nom
Harmonium - Pour un instant
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Re: Guys when you go in a foreign country where they don't speak english [Re: Manitou]
#635153 - 08/18/12 09:55 PM (12 years, 4 months ago) |
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Vivle le Quebec 
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The amount of pot that Gask smokes is equivalent to a guy shooting heroin on weekends
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Re: Guys when you go in a foreign country where they don't speak english [Re: drawde]
#635154 - 08/18/12 09:57 PM (12 years, 4 months ago) |
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Fuck yeah, vive le Québec libre!
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Pour un instant, j'ai respiré très fort
Ça m'a permis de visiter mon corps
Des inconnus vivent en roi chez moi
Moi qui avait accepté leurs lois
J'ai perdu mon temps à gagner du temps
J'ai besoin de me trouver une histoire à me conter
Pour instant j'ai oublié mon nom
Harmonium - Pour un instant
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Re: Guys when you go in a foreign country where they don't speak english *DELETED* [Re: Manitou]
#635223 - 08/20/12 10:18 AM (12 years, 4 months ago) |
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Re: Guys when you go in a foreign country where they don't speak english [Re: RedAshes]
#635226 - 08/20/12 10:43 AM (12 years, 4 months ago) |
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Well since french has different roots than english, it is quite hard for people who speaks english as main language to learn french, there are a lots of pronunciations or sounds that we use and that you don't use, and it goes on the other way also, for example the "the" in three or the, we will pronounce them tree and "de".
But for people talking french, it is easy to learn languages that have the same latin roots, for example spanish, even tho there are different pronunciations also between these 2 languages, it is much easier for a spanish speaking person to learn french, my roommate's wife (whos my roommate also lol) is from Dominican republic, she learned french so fast when she arrived here, it took her a couple of months and thats it. She speaks it pretty well, but again there are words she can't even say, like "arbre" just because of the 2 "r", she can't pronounce it at all.
Also language totally reflect a part of the culture, there are expressions that just wouldn't work in another country, or in the same country actually (Québec for example), the language and expressions are adapted to the way people live, we use a ton of english expressions, but we adapt them in a french way, for example "esti que c'est fucké" would mean "its so fucked up", we use lots of english words and we don't even know the words in french for them (well lots of people don't), for example muffler, or a tire (car tire) etc.
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Pour un instant, j'ai respiré très fort
Ça m'a permis de visiter mon corps
Des inconnus vivent en roi chez moi
Moi qui avait accepté leurs lois
J'ai perdu mon temps à gagner du temps
J'ai besoin de me trouver une histoire à me conter
Pour instant j'ai oublié mon nom
Harmonium - Pour un instant
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Re: Guys when you go in a foreign country where they don't speak english *DELETED* [Re: Manitou]
#635245 - 08/20/12 12:56 PM (12 years, 4 months ago) |
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Re: Guys when you go in a foreign country where they don't speak english [Re: RedAshes]
#635259 - 08/20/12 01:49 PM (12 years, 4 months ago) |
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Quote:
RedAshes said:
Remember that English is a language of stolen words anyway, using words from so many other languages.
Like most languages?
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