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I love it when my clients try and teach me English. I just love it.

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman
by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Mon Feb 8th, 2010 at 01:19:36 PM EST
Didn't you know? Seeing something on television makes a person an authority on a subject.

you are the media you consume.

by MillMan (millguy at gmail) on Mon Feb 8th, 2010 at 01:34:50 PM EST
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Do they speak louder at you, too?  That's my favorite.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Mon Feb 8th, 2010 at 01:38:41 PM EST
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That's a bit of a universal.

In a school where most of the kids are British Asian (and have English as a second language), I've found it quite entertaining to see the Asian kids SPEAK ENGLISH LOUDER at the central European kids just acquiring the language.  SHOUTING AT FOREIGNERS is supposed to be a particularly Anglo vice, so I don't know whether it's innate to these children or whether it's something they've learned because they or their parents have been on the receiving end of it.

I've found that explaining (in French) that shouting doesn't help and then repeating myself LOUDER AND LOUDER generally gets the point across.

by Sassafras on Mon Feb 8th, 2010 at 02:32:10 PM EST
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At what point do you tell them...?

Ad astra per aspera
by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Mon Feb 8th, 2010 at 01:50:45 PM EST
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I try and break it to them in a manner that befits our mutual awareness of who will be billing whom when all is (badly) said and done.

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman
by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Mon Feb 8th, 2010 at 03:18:04 PM EST
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