What words, phrases or signs do you use and how do you get your partner’s attention?

  • @[email protected]
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    41 year ago

    I mean, anyone with a brain understands that when you’re using a language nobody else understands, that you’re talking shit about people in the room.

    Doesn’t take a rocket scientist of even a bilingual to figure that out.

    • 1bluepixel
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      31 year ago

      That’s a really weird attitude. I come from a multicultural city where people speak their own language in public all the time and nobody presumes it has anything to do with them. Why would it?

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        If you’re in a social group, purposefully using a separate channel is interpreted as something the group wouldn’t approve of.

        • Digitalprimate
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          41 year ago

          My American friend group is perfectly fine if my wife and I speak the occasional Dutch in front of them. They know we’d make fun of them to their faces if we felt like it.

      • Caveman
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        11 year ago

        Probably American. They don’t understand that cultures are different. Safe to ignore lol

    • @PlutoniumAcid
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      21 year ago

      You have low expectations. Sometimes we just want to keep embarrassing stuff on the low.