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# Where's you picture?
Also, slight TJ:
I am not racist at all but I have a couple of Indian Auditors sitting next to me and although they both speak very good English with my colleagues, they quite often 'Go off on one' in their native language. I think this is wrong but I would be interested to hear my fellow b3tains point of view before I tell them.

So, do you think this is wrong?


(, Wed 18 Jan 2012, 14:27, archived)
# do you worry they are gossiping about people in the office and saying rude things about you?
(, Wed 18 Jan 2012, 14:29, archived)
# Isn't that what offices are made for?
(, Wed 18 Jan 2012, 14:31, archived)
# I think so
and if could get away with doing this using a language only me and a chum understood I would do this. Massively.
(, Wed 18 Jan 2012, 14:33, archived)
# Or alternatively, just catch up with them later when the person you want to bitch about isn't around.
It's why I usually go to the pub after class.
(, Wed 18 Jan 2012, 14:35, archived)
# Bloody hell - you answered me!
Hello Rob! and Yes
(, Wed 18 Jan 2012, 14:34, archived)
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(, Wed 18 Jan 2012, 14:40, archived)
# No.
When I taught EFL, I would go to the pub with students of age, and they would all make a specific effort to only speak English in front of me, out of respect for me, but I thought it was embarassingly (for me) hospitable of them.
(, Wed 18 Jan 2012, 14:38, archived)
# ^ I found myself at a pub sharing a table full of Spanish and Italian peoples who I'd never even met before
about halfway through the night I realised they were all speaking English even though some of them had very limited language skills

I felt, quite frankly, embarrassed by their consideration and assured them I didn't have a problem with them speaking their native languages in front of me
(, Wed 18 Jan 2012, 14:56, archived)
# Well,
you're talking about them behind their backs on the internet. So it's swings and roundabouts, really.
(, Wed 18 Jan 2012, 14:40, archived)
# One of them is gronkplan
and they're bitching about vagcreams.
(, Wed 18 Jan 2012, 14:43, archived)
#
Warum zum Teufel gibt es sie? Wenn ich von jedem Promi Geburtstage wissen wollte, würde ich es Google.
(, Wed 18 Jan 2012, 14:45, archived)
# Mein Deutsch ist scheisse, aber wir wenn, benutzen diese Pfosten, um zu sprechen aus "Vobbly Bloke"?
(, Wed 18 Jan 2012, 14:51, archived)
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Nein, können wir beeinträchtigt werden. Mein Deutsch ist noch schlimmer. Ich bin mit Google Translate.
(, Wed 18 Jan 2012, 14:53, archived)
# Ah, gut. Wir kannst beeinträchtigt.
Ich selbst benutze meistens bablefish.
(, Wed 18 Jan 2012, 14:57, archived)
# Yes, very wrong.
It is spelled THEIR.
(, Wed 18 Jan 2012, 14:56, archived)
# ^
(, Wed 18 Jan 2012, 14:57, archived)
# Edited - Is it still wrong now?
(, Wed 18 Jan 2012, 14:59, archived)
# um not sure
these lovely people will tell you 0844 809 4581
(, Wed 18 Jan 2012, 15:00, archived)
# what do you mean by 'go off on one'?
(, Wed 18 Jan 2012, 15:01, archived)
# They speak so fast, I don't have time to type in in Google!
(, Wed 18 Jan 2012, 15:16, archived)