Eh… it’s probably not so much that they are demanding their language be spoken…
More a case of the tourists are probably being dickheads in general and the locals have had enough of their shit. That and the locals would like to be able to enjoy their own beach without having to wade through masses of tourists.
Ahhh it’s a lot easier to learn through immersion if you live there ;)
(A Brit who has lived in two other countries). I’m well aware of the resources on the internet. I’m also aware of the fact that this issue with the signs has bugger all to do with language barrier and everything to do with the people visiting being ignorant and inconsiderate tourists.
You are better off brushing up on the culture than you are the language. Simply looking at the sign through your phone camera would automatically translate it for you - yet another internet resource ;)
For shits and giggles I’m going to list the countries I’ve travelled to:
France, Spain, Greece, Austria, Italy, Finland, UAE, Dubai, Qatar, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Philippines, Palau, Malaysia, Indonesia - then Australia, US and Canada which don’t count for this I guess. I’m possibly missing one or two, I’m tired.
So, I’m supposed to have learned the language, and respective writing systems, of each of these places before going there?
I guess I should just quit my job and take up learning language full time…. Either that or just stay at home so that I don’t get ridiculed for being an ignorant tourist.
Rofl…
Let me guess… you’re American and ‘travel’ to you is a quick trip across the border
I’m not sure how many Cambodians are wandering around rural UK, and I’m fairly certain that Duolingo doesn’t have Khmer.
Guess I’d better cancel my trip.
And they’ve probably never travelled outside of English speaking counties.
I’d have to be a genius to speak the language of every country I’ve travelled to, and that’s ignoring the countries that have several distinct and active languages (looking at you, Austria…)
Yep, I came here to point this out but you beat me to it.
Our humour is often referred to as “dark”, but in reality we have simply internalised it like the rest of our emotions and have replaced it with pure unadulterated sarcasm and incredulity.
Surely there has to be some kind of regulation about shit like that (not that he’ll care)
Funnily enough, I tried using the phrase “right-wing media” in a reply to a tweet today and it wouldn’t go through.
No error, nothing, just refused to submit. Tried a couple of times, no go.
Rephrased it and it magically went through.
Funnily enough…
If you use Chinese pronunciation for X it is pretty damn close to Sh.
I was planning on continuing my sorc even if they didn’t get any buffs because I enjoy the play style.
After the patch was live I entered a NM dungeon using the lowest sigil I had on me. I didn’t even complete the first objective. It was a complete bloodbath.
I might just stack defensive stats everywhere with a sprinkling of thorns so that I can stand and cry in a corner until people smarter than me can figure out if any of the gems make us semi-useful.
God knows our new “unique” doesn’t offer any hope. It actually provides us with a refreshing new way to die, teleport roulette!
Ultimately, I don’t know. I’ll probably slam my head against the wall with a chain-lightning sorc for a while like I’ve been doing since release. I’m a stubborn cow and I (stupidly) live in hope of a miracle.
Maybe I need to just ignore all of the paragon boards apart from the two lightning ones and just fill every single node. There’s some kind of big brain Da Vinci code shit in there somewhere, there must be…. Some kind of cheat code that makes sorcs not suck. It will be my mission to find it.
I’ve had a fastmail account for many years and never had any issues. Fairly solid and reliable.
He’ll probably invest his remaining billions in developing a way to thwart adblockers next. It will be as successful as everything else he has done in relation to twitter.