if you're going to try and communicate with someone in a language you don't speak, with a phonology you are unaware of, the least you can do is not get *angry* at them for not understanding you
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Replying to @ManishEarth
This reminds me of the somewhat unrelated incident in a coffeeshop in Hamburg, where the employee behind the counter insisted on negotiating a language we could speak in common, after I had successfully ordered without using language, in order to ask if I wanted anything else.

Dec 22, 2021 · 8:52 PM UTC

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Replying to @davidbaron @ManishEarth
If I had been less jetlagged+tired (it was just a few hours after getting off a mostly-sleepless EWR-HAM flight), and she had spoken more slowly, I might have even understood the German. (I did eventually understand the Spanish.)
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