My friend(who is a very experienced traveller) went to Barcelona on a pleasure and was stunned at how bad she was treated. I kept sendind her useful phrases by email such as "if I wanted this treatment I would have gone to Paris". This surprised me as she is very interested in and respectful of other cultures. -----Original Message----- From: paul stenquist <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 16:40:38 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List<[email protected]> Subject: Re: question for the brits American to English translation
On Mar 28, 2010, at 4:05 PM, Keith Whaley wrote: > P N Stenquist wrote: > > >> Perhaps it works for me, because I go with a smile on my face and no >> expectations of problems. >> Paul > > Do you speak any French? Or English with a Canadian accent, perhaps? No. I speak American English. Politely. Paul > > We never expect or anticipate problems, but have run into more than our share > of surly waiters and counter help here and there. > > Just my run of luck, I guess... I love Paris, it just doesnât love me back... > > keith > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
