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Originally Posted by flybouy
I am also fluent in sarcasm with a SA degree (Smart A..). I had 5 years of Spanish myself. I learned how useless it was while standing on board a ship in an electrical vualt. My employer at the time sent me yhere to diagnose an issue with their anchor motor. The ship's engineer only spoke German so they found a mate that spoke German and Spanish to translate. I quickly realized I could ask how his donkey was doing, ask jim to hail a cab, or for directions to the nearest bordello but wasn't tought and electrical or engineering terms.
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I can order a beer in 5 languages. That's the extent of my cross cultural dialect
