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I get your point but I've seen a lot of Americans be outraged at non-native English speakers use words or expressions they deem inappropriate, and show zero tol

I get your point but I've seen a lot of Americans be outraged at non-native English speakers use words or expressions they deem inappropriate, and show zero tolerance for the fact the people in question aren't necessarily fluent. It happens a lot here in fact.

mc32 7y ago
Right, or Parisians or people in Quebec, non metro Germany, non coastal China, etc. Those aren’t cultural faux pases, really. The situation described is two people who are acquaintances from different places trying to have an interested conversation, not just random people bumping into each other.