[Drango]

but b/c of the language barrier

There is nothing funnier than setting in a meeting listening to a Polish engineer discussing an item with a Chinese/Indian/Filipino/Russian/Turkish softwear team.

I don't think anyone can understand a single thing said...

[tracer]

Your post reminds me of the days when I worked for a large Japanese company. The Japanese managers where very nice, but many of my gaijin associates were offended by the practice of business meetings in English being punctuated by pauses for sidebar discussions in Japanese.

I started the practice of holding simultaneous sidebar meetings in Pig-Latin. One junior executive always could be seen feverishly thumbing through his Japanese-English dictionary to try to gain at least a small idea of what we were saying. He apparently never figured out that we were discussing everything from baseball to politics to NYC area traffic.

I shared many a laugh with a few senior Japanese executives about this. And, no, I was not fired or even hassled. Au contrair'......