[conservativehusker]

Kinda like the Simpson's episode when they are in Australia a Marge ordered water and the bar keep kept saying BEER??..

When I was in Italy I had to learn to order things in Italian or point.

I heard today that over 11 million residents of the US can't read and write English.

[JoeFromSidney]

When I was in Italy I had to learn to order things in Italian or point.

When I was a visiting professor in Turkey, every day I'd go through the cafeteria line and point to what I wanted (everything was behind glass and a server put it in a dish and handed it to you). Towards the end of the semester I was going through the line talking to an English-speaking colleague. One of the servers said (in Turkish) that it was the first time all semester he'd heard my voice. My collegue translated the remark. I replied that I didn't know the Turkish names for the various food items, so I had to point.