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Speaking polish to polish customers

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  • scd3scd4
    scd3scd4 Posts: 1,180 Forumite
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    edited 10 September 2018 at 5:45PM
    Doshwaster wrote: »
    I wouldn't care either. Surely staff being able to serve people in the customer's preferred language is something the employer should be advertising not preventing.

    If you went to get your haircut in Spain you'd be grateful for the barber being able to speak English, wouldn't you?

    I would not choose to have my haircut with someone who could not speak to me in my language regardless ................just as I would not use a dentist among many.

    Why would I if I have the option not too?

    I said I don't mind what they do to others and among themselves but I know what I expect.
  • scd3scd4 wrote: »
    I would not choose to have my haircut with someone who could not speak to me in my language regardless ................just as I would not use a dentist amount many.

    Why would I if I have the option not too?

    I said I don't mind what they do to others and amount themselves but I know what I expect.



    What is your language?
  • scd3scd4
    scd3scd4 Posts: 1,180 Forumite
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    edited 10 September 2018 at 6:00PM
    What is your language?


    Correction, among. We all make mistakes a bit like..........


    What is your language!

    Hardly the best diction or grammar.

    Anyway, as I said. I would not choose a place where my language was not spoken. I don't know what that's called but to be honest. I couldn't care less.
  • robatwork
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    Casey1709 wrote: »
    Nice segway again.

    As this topic does involve use of language, I'm not going to let this one pass. It gets my goat.

    Segway is a machine you stand on and look ridiculous.

    Segue is the word you meant. Yes it does seem a bit forin.
  • nicechap
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    robatwork wrote: »
    As this topic does involve use of language, I'm not going to let this one pass. It gets my goat.

    Segway is a machine you stand on and look ridiculous.

    Segue is the word you meant. Yes it does seem a bit forin.



    Isn't that one of the great things about the English language, how words come into use despite being wrong. Selfie/ self portrait. nuff said.
    Originally Posted by shortcrust
    "Contact the Ministry of Fairness....If sufficient evidence of unfairness is discovered you’ll get an apology, a permanent contract with backdated benefits, a ‘Let’s Make it Fair!’ tshirt and mug, and those guilty of unfairness will be sent on a Fairness Awareness course."
  • scd3scd4 wrote: »
    I would not choose to have my haircut with someone who could not speak to me in my language regardless .............

    I used to deliberately use a foreign hairdresser because she didnt bend my ear with smalltalk the whole time. Horses for courses..
  • Smodlet
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    I used to deliberately use a foreign hairdresser because she didnt bend my ear with smalltalk the whole time. Horses for courses..

    Yeah, I guess Amara's salon could even provide free Polish lessons. It can't take long to figure out how to say, "Have you been on your holidays yet?" or "What clubs do you go to in the town?" :rotfl:
  • robatwork
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    nicechap wrote: »
    Isn't that one of the great things about the English language, how words come into use despite being wrong. Selfie/ self portrait. nuff said.

    Yes it's literally the most annoying thing in daily speech. Apart from what I just typed.
  • scd3scd4
    scd3scd4 Posts: 1,180 Forumite
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    I used to deliberately use a foreign hairdresser because she didnt bend my ear with smalltalk the whole time. Horses for courses..


    That's fair enough. I just suppose I care what I look like at the end.
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