Last night at work I was talking with this guy, who told me he'd been living in Europe the past 5 years. I asked him if he went to Spain (I'm dying to go) and he said yes so I asked him if he spoke any Spanish...
His response was pretty much something like "FUCK no, that's just the same as Mexican!"
Then he went on to say that French, Italian, and Spanish were all the same, because they come from Latin. He doesn't speak any of them but he speaks Latin (riiiiight). Then he told me all languages come from Latin except the "Oriental ones"...
Now I'm a huge nerd about languages and I speak a fair amount of Spanish, and I've also taken French. They have their similarites but holy shit they aren't even close to being the same language!
Before this I was talking to the guy's boss that was there with him, and told him I was studying Portuguese. He asks, "Oh, is that a language?"
Um yeah, ever heard of Brazil? Or PORTUGUAL?
I was just amazed at how ignorant this guy was, especially after claiming to live in Europe for 5 years!
I don't think I've ever had struggle so much to just bite my tongue.
Anyways, I just had to share it... sorry if this isn't the right place for this kind of thing, I wasn't really sure. I thought I saw a thread about stupid customer comments before, but couldn't find it for the life of me.





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