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> This is not helpful for a Dutch person like me (who are usually very direct) While we are at this, I think Dutch people should work on being less "direct", a
by quadrifoliate 7y ago
> This is not helpful for a Dutch person like me (who are usually very direct)
While we are at this, I think Dutch people should work on being less "direct", and also try to improve their sentence construction when writing English.
Plenty of my (former) Dutch coworkers' emails in English just came across as rude, in both senses of that word.
- benj111 7y agoHows your Dutch sentence construction?
- scarejunba 7y agoI mean, if we're going down that road, might as well go one step back and ask how the Dutch fellow's understanding of Indian culture is. In any case, these are things you learn once. After that, the better you are at navigating the differences, the more successful you'll be. After all, it's low probability that you'll reform (in your mind) another culture and high probability that you can improve your ability to win. So might as well chase the win by modifying the self every time.
- benj111 7y agoLearning a language is hard. This whole thread is the differences between nations who speak the same language. If they can't agree what chance has a non native got? As a native English speaker I appreciate that I don't need to learn another language. But on the other hand, the language has also become the worlds language, so its about as fair criticising the Dutch for sentence construction, as it is for criticising Australians for making everything into a question?