Lucky Cow by Mark Pett for June 29, 2013

This is Brenda and Jim, the two biggest slobs on earth.

They put the ugly in American.

Lately I’ve getting this kind of crap from Mexicans (here in the US) who are indignant that I didn’t bother learning Spanish to accommodate them.

Or maybe it’s a server that gets off hassling American tourists. The Americans could just stay away for awhile and I betcha servers and other service personnel would learn American English purely for survival. Ask the French about that.

Pardon? Avez-vous une ketchup?

I think it’s “avez-vous de la ketchup”.(Or is it “du ketchup”?)

I’ve heard that if you ask for ketchup in a French restaurant you get 86’d.

The French attitude is, “If you come to my country, you’d damned-well better speak my language.”The Germans want to try out their English on you.

until I visited another country, I didn’t realize how most Americans think the world revolves around us. It doesn’t.

A tourist visiting this country and not knowing English is one thing, but someone who decided to live here for an extended time ought to learn the language.If I came to a decision that I wanted to live and work in Norway, learning Norwegian would be on my “to do” list before going.

I have no problem with the concept of learning a foreign language if you’re visiting a foreign country. It’s having to learn a foreign language ON AMERICAN SOIL that’s seriously aggravating.