It's sad, really.
I remember years ago helping a Canadian girl with her college homework. There was a specialized word in the text she didn't understand. She would only use a Canadian dictionary! When I looked I realized her dictionary didn't have the definition. I got out an American Webster's and found the word. You would have thought I was trying to poison her, for the way she reacted.
I pointed out to her that the text was written in the US and it was a specialized word. I never saw anyone put-up such a bizarre resistance to simple learning.
<< I got out an American Webster's and found the word. You would have thought I was trying to poison her, for the way she reacted.
I pointed out to her that the text was written in the US and it was a specialized word. I never saw anyone put-up such a bizarre resistance to simple learning. >>
I deal with it every day in my [Foreign] travels.
Try the FRench -- or anyone else in and/or from the third world, come to that.
The rest of the world's morbidly envy-motivated, hatred-engined and rage-driven anti-American prejudices have become organic! It ain't the 'Battle of the Bands' we're engaged in.
This one's for keeps.