“No, I didn’t say she’s a lesbian. I said she’s bilingual.”
I wish I knew where to attribute this, but I heard it from someone recently , I think in Chicago, when Eva and I went there for Memorial Day… I’ve heard that people that speak three languages are trilingual, people that speak two languages are bilingual and people that speak one language are American. I always thought this was a fairly solid illustration of our culture of superiority. It’s always embarrassing to travel to Europe and default speak English when almost everyone there speaks their own language, English and generally a couple other languages as well. It makes us seem like uncultured dregs. What we fail to realize as we default accept the fact that we are culturally inferior to the Europeans is that when you live in Europe, if you drive two hours in any direction you have to speak a different language. If you live in France and travel anywhere outside of the country, you will need to speak English because it’s the great equalizer. In America on the other hand, you can basically travel 12+ hours in any direction regardless of where you live and everyone will still speak English. Couple that with the fact that English is the international language of business and the fact that the US dollar is currently the global standard for currency, and it seems more and more like we should only speak English. Plus we’re better than everyone else in the world. So there’s that too.
The photo today is one which I took out a plane window. Hover your mouse over the photo and you’ll see what I called it to trick creepy Googlers. Next time I’ll let you know how many of said creepy Googlers happened upon my website via that particular search phrase. So look forward to that!
