It may have helped if you’d explained yourself to onlookers in English, or simply asked in English (given Thomas’s apparent reasonable fluency).
I disagree with the downvotes, though.
All I said was, “Do you prefer to speak German? That’s a language that I can also do [sic]. Do you want me to sometimes translate for you?”
The decision to start speaking in German where it’s unnecessary for communicating what you’ve said, was stupid, and should be punished accordingly.
Sex is unnecessary and stupid too, ape. How about some tolerance for other’s differences? Oh, right, I forgot.
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It may have helped if you’d explained yourself to onlookers in English, or simply asked in English (given Thomas’s apparent reasonable fluency).
I disagree with the downvotes, though.
All I said was, “Do you prefer to speak German? That’s a language that I can also do [sic]. Do you want me to sometimes translate for you?”
The decision to start speaking in German where it’s unnecessary for communicating what you’ve said, was stupid, and should be punished accordingly.
Sex is unnecessary and stupid too, ape. How about some tolerance for other’s differences? Oh, right, I forgot.