Do you speak broken English?
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Because they know them?John Bingham wrote: ↑Wed Jul 21, 2021 4:05 pmI can't imagine why anyone would speak English (broken or not) to any local unless they speak to you in English first? Pretty much nobody in my neighborhood speaks English.Pseudonomdeplume wrote: ↑Wed Jul 21, 2021 12:55 pm We really are a condescending, supercilious lot, though. It should be us learning Khmer and them speaking comprehensively to us.
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Pseudonomdeplume wrote: ↑Wed Jul 21, 2021 8:57 pmBecause they know them?John Bingham wrote: ↑Wed Jul 21, 2021 4:05 pmI can't imagine why anyone would speak English (broken or not) to any local unless they speak to you in English first? Pretty much nobody in my neighborhood speaks English.Pseudonomdeplume wrote: ↑Wed Jul 21, 2021 12:55 pm We really are a condescending, supercilious lot, though. It should be us learning Khmer and them speaking comprehensively to us.
..unless they speak to you in English first...
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Damnit! I do forget sometimes that my friends' English are limited, and am met with a blank stare, as I continue on from what they've said, because they have learnt what they need to say, regularly. When they text each other, it is one or 2 words; (translated) have, eat at, come, go. Or at least, that's my experience from the ones that show me their accounts albeit, I don't read a lot (they're really quick in the bathroom).John Bingham wrote: ↑Wed Jul 21, 2021 9:07 pmPseudonomdeplume wrote: ↑Wed Jul 21, 2021 8:57 pmBecause they know them?John Bingham wrote: ↑Wed Jul 21, 2021 4:05 pmI can't imagine why anyone would speak English (broken or not) to any local unless they speak to you in English first? Pretty much nobody in my neighborhood speaks English.Pseudonomdeplume wrote: ↑Wed Jul 21, 2021 12:55 pm We really are a condescending, supercilious lot, though. It should be us learning Khmer and them speaking comprehensively to us...unless they speak to you in English first...
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