• @Voyajer
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    387 days ago

    Implying the sign isn’t talking about Australians who visit in the same numbers

    • @CuddlyCassowary
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      97 days ago

      And perhaps Brits and Canadians. I’m not sure about their visit numbers though.

    • AItoothbrush
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      67 days ago

      Or anybody in europe who probably speaks english as thats the “world language”

      • @[email protected]
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        57 days ago

        Unless they’re from a primarily English speaking country, they’d be unlikely to complain though.

        • @Droggelbecher
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          67 days ago

          I’ve met lots of people who seem to hold the sentiment that if THEY managed to learn English, why can’t EVERYONE ELSE?

        • AItoothbrush
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          27 days ago

          Yeah they wouldnt complain… except if theyre my grandfather who started complaining in vietnam to a hotel receptionist that they dont speak hungarian, a language about 14 million people speak in the world and the only language it has mutual intelligibility with is spoken by about 10000 people…

    • @[email protected]
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      37 days ago

      Wait, in that case maybe complaining is a bit justified? Different of course of it’s a place off the beaten path, but if it’s a hotbed of English-speaking tourists then having staff that speak their language seems pretty important.

      Guess it’s really hard to say without more context (story of the internet).

      • @Voyajer
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        17 days ago

        I don’t even know why some native speakers complain about having to deal with broken English when the learner only needs to know a tiny fraction of the language to be intelligible. As long as they have the vocab, grammar is mostly optional.