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Originally Posted by astra
I firmly believe that it is a show of bad maners when a person uses a foreign language in company of other people whose native language is different. I believe that on English forum you speak English on German forum you speak German etc. A bit of respect to others.
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I firmly believe it's a show of bad manners to speak English.
Ever.
The person being spoken to matters more than any differently educated or undereducated third-party listeners should. If two people are talking, they should use the right language for them. They can always translate for whoever else as they go.
Not that any of this has anything to do with what happened. Nobody insulted you by daring to speak their own language in your presence. They used a new and not yet fully assimilated french borrowing whose meaning you damn well know.
- Ahi