Must be a cultural thing. A coworker of mine used to get this all the time -- I mean 3 or 4 times a week. The thing was, she wasn't hispanic. She had dark hair, but she married into the hispanic last name, and yet she constantly had to deal with customers griping at her for not speaking Spanish.DisneyMom wrote:...Yet, one time there was this crazy lady at our clinic who was quite pissed at me and complaining loudly about me (in Spanish) to our Spanish-Speaking security guard(I had called him) that I SHOULD speak Spanish because I have a Latin heritage....
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I have the same problem. Or in my case, people notice the language pin and don't believe that I actually do.Alyssa3467 wrote:I sometimes wear a language flag, and Guests that speak the language in question are often shocked to find that I speak that language. When I point out the language flag, they say they weren't paying attention.
This was an actual exchange I had with a French guest earlier this year (English translation provided):
SG: Vous n'avez pas vraiment parler français.
(You don't really speak French.)
Me: euh...je parle français. Je suis canadien.
(eh...I DO speak French. I'm Canadian.)
SG: Vous mentez! Ils ne parlent pas le français au Canada!
(You're lying! They don't speak French in Canada!)
Me: .....
Mind you, this discussion was held totally in French.
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That makes it really obvious that you don't speak French. If you want to make people believe that you speak languages you don't you should never have a conversation in that language, it is a clear indication that you are not being honest about speaking the language. :p:glendalais wrote:Mind you, this discussion was held totally in French.
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Eh.....I do speak French...Lasolimu wrote:That makes it really obvious that you don't speak French. If you want to make people believe that you speak languages you don't you should never have a conversation in that language, it is a clear indication that you are not being honest about speaking the language. :p:
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Re: I hate the 2fer with the fire of 10000 suns.
Ne me confuser avec des verites!glendalais wrote:I have the same problem. Or in my case, people notice the language pin and don't believe that I actually do.
This was an actual exchange I had with a French guest earlier this year (English translation provided):
SG: Vous n'avez pas vraiment parler français.
(You don't really speak French.)
Me: euh...je parle français. Je suis canadien.
(eh...I DO speak French. I'm Canadian.)
SG: Vous mentez! Ils ne parlent pas le français au Canada!
(You're lying! They don't speak French in Canada!)
Me: .....
Mind you, this discussion was held totally in French.
(Don't confuse me with the facts.)
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Omelette du fromage!
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You seem to be putting too much thought into my statement to see the sarcasm. Why should speaking French be an indication that you speak French?glendalais wrote:Eh.....I do speak French...
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Ah...I get it.Lasolimu wrote:You seem to be putting too much thought into my statement to see the sarcasm. Why should speaking French be an indication that you speak French?
Again, it's a holiday, and I'm still half-asleep (at the godly hour of 2 in the afternoon), lol.
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Help him...help him...he spoke French!!!!!BRWombat wrote:Omelette du fromage!
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I wish I could sleep in today, I still had to work, I don't get today off because I am in Utah and the company only gives today off to employees outside Utah, probably because we get July 24th off and no one else does.glendalais wrote:Ah...I get it.
Again, it's a holiday, and I'm still half-asleep (at the godly hour of 2 in the afternoon), lol.
It is already too late for him, we must save ourselves.GRUMPY PIRATE wrote:Help him...help him...he spoke French!!!!!
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