(August 9, 2017 at 11:57 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote:(August 9, 2017 at 11:55 pm)Crossless2.0 Wrote: For the umpteenth time as I disembark a Chinese-crewed ship, I think, 'I really should learn more Mandarin than how to say thank you.'
I'm such a lazy fuck.
Listen.
If you're in the minority, on THEIR ship, they should learn to speak English!
Bloody lazy foreigners!
Oh, they do. All seamen speak at least minimally functional English. But when they speak to each other in their native languages, I'm reduced to smiling and nodding with what I hope is an intelligently curious expression but that I'm fairly sure is really imbecilic. It's embarrassing.
