Never assume people don't understand you when you say something....( vent )

[bobcat]

ROTFL at your come back! Bet they will think twice next time.

 

[missymouse3367]

Wow I really would of loved to see her face.

 

[disykat]

What they also didn't understand is that even if you didn't speak Spanish you probably would have had a good idea what they were saying!

I can't believe the number of times I have had conversations with people speaking a different language and we've been able to understand each other pretty well. This has happened to me even with friends that are Cambodian - and Khmer has nothing in common with English! I can't imagine anyone speaking Spanish and expecting English speaking people not to have a clue - many people speak Spanish and many who don't are familiar enough with it to listen in a bit.

She deserved a snappy comeback. Good for you!

 

[PhotobearSam]

GOOD FOR YOU! I'm glad and proud of you for answering.

I grew up in a frech part of Canada called New Brunswick (well my part of NB was french but some part are English)

We speak a cultural slang (made up of old french words and shortened words) and someone from the neighbouring FRENCH province came to my parents restaurant. I was 19 years old and I greeted them when they came in the way I would greet a local because I had no idea that they were from Quebec.

The lady then said to me (in french) "If you can't speak proper FRENCH then don't speak it at all..." I was mad but my parents raised a good girl so I apologized and asked if I could take her order.


After 5 minutes of looking at our menu, (fast food fried chicken and take out pizza) she said "Je veux une pizza all-dressed..." (I would like a pizza with the works) There is nothing wrong with the word Pizza as it is correct to use it in French but the Word ALL-DRESSED was too much for me to take.

I grinned from ear to ear when I responded in very correct French..."Une pizza toute garnie, madame." (the correct word for the works) and she just aout died on the spot. How dare she say that I should not speak it when she was using the wrong words. My Mom just about pissed herself and had to go laugh in the office. It was the most enjoyable pizza I ever made!

PS---Not all people from Quebec are like this but there are always a few crazy people to muck it up for the rest of them.

 

[SDAngel101]

I would have done the same thing!!

 

[Mskanga]

Samantha, you just reminded me of something. I come from Nort East Spain ( Barcelona to be exact ) and we speak "Catalan" there , it's our mother tongue but because of dictatorship when I was growing up , we couldn't speak it anywhere else but only at home. When the dictator died , people started speaking it freely in the streets and schools but it took a few years to accomplish that. In the meantime , we had a lot of immigrants from the south living in Barcelona. My mother used to have a store and countless times when I was talking to my parents I would do it in Catalan like I had done all my life and then I would have a customer say...Speak in Spanish, you are in Spain!! I always spoke my mind and told those people to mind their own business , that I was in my own land and I could speak my language and that they should learn at least to understand it. Now if someone asked me when I spoke to them and said , I do not understand Catalan, could you please speak to me in Spanish? I would do it without a problem.