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Good point about the other German speaking countries. I don't really know why that slipped my mind. But the social class thing you mentioned is kind of my poin
by yosito 4y ago
Good point about the other German speaking countries. I don't really know why that slipped my mind.
But the social class thing you mentioned is kind of my point. I think it's pretty much true in all of those German speaking countries, that if you only want to interact with service workers in cities and professional, college educated, internationally minded people, you will have plenty of people to talk to and might not ever feel a need to know German.
- wheels 4y agoAgain, Angele Merkel is a pretty convincing counterexample.
- yosito 4y agoI'll keep that in mind when I'm trying to socialize with the likes of Angele Merkel
- wheels 4y agoYeah, probably the chancellor and foreign minister were the only two from their generation that were educated, internationally minded and don't speak English.
- eru 4y agoHuh? What makes you think they don't speak English? Angela Merkel can definitely speak English.
- wheels 4y agoHer English is pretty bad. The commenter I was replying to insisted all internationally minded Germans speak excellent English. That's false for Angele Merkel and Guido Westerwelle, and it's literally impossible to find more high profile counterexamples.
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