17 Jul
2010
17 Jul
'10
2:20 p.m.
On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 22:09:44 +1000
Patrick Shirkey <pshirkey(a)boosthardware.com> wrote:
On 07/17/2010 08:13 PM, James Stone wrote:
I travel quite a bit, and find there are the usual two classes of
people. Tourists & Travellers.
Tourists of any nationality I find a pain in the backside. They are
usually selfish, loud & demanding. I avoid them like the plague.
Travellers generally are actually interested in the countries and
people they visit and will make efforts to fit in. I always have time
for travellers to England.
These days, I can usually make myself understood in (spoken) German and
have a smattering of Spanish. I'm hoping to spend quite a bit of time in
France next year so am considering a short beginners course in French.
--
Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk
Say you have a poem and I have a tune.
Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 10:07 PM,
Gwenhwyfaer<gwenhwyfaer(a)gmail.com> wrote:
That may be the case while Brits are in Britain but when they travel
they tend to get a bit more mouthy and self absorbed. Perhaps that was
what Gwenhwyfaer was alluding to...
Maybe it's more noticible when you can understand the language being
spoken. Perhaps non english speakers have seen similar behaviour from
other non english speakers? Yes, but it's a very British thing to do,
throwing a very public
tantrum about something other people are doing that you don't like
rather than simply taking a couple of small steps to avoid it.
That's a rather sweeping (and as far as I can tell untrue) statement.
With the exception of readers of the Daily Mail (a horrible
hate-riddled tabloid), most British people (in my experience as a
native) have pretty much a live and let live attitude in my
experience.
You won't see me storming off in a huff, but I do do a fair bit of
ignoring (although in this case my British reserve didn't win out...).