The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #58910   Message #968581
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
18-Jun-03 - 04:10 PM
Thread Name: BS: Is Kim Howells an arsehole?
Subject: RE: BS: Is Kim Howells an arsehole?
If I'm in a foreign country I am perfectly happy to hear people speaking in a foreign language, and don't see that as some kind of threat.

One mildly irriating thing I found on a trip to the Netherlands was that everyone seemed to insist on speaking English any time I was presetn. How do English foreigners ever learn to speak Dutch?

Do other nationalities react this way to people speaking minority languages, or is it just the English? For example, do the French get all hot and bothered if people speak Breton?