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[homedecor1]

@Plaid Pants2

Ditto on your comment like my Vietnamese nail tech who hardly "understands" what your telling her BUT try to include  tip on a credit card -- her English is perfect "tips accepted in cash only!" Hmmmmm

(ps:she's been my nail tech for many years and been in this country since she was 10 -- she's 40! Long enough I think to understand our language😏)

[feline groovy]

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@house_cat wrote:

Just one of the reasons I don't use the hot tub in our town home complex.  It is outdoors and open year long, as is the pool.  A card is required to enter the area, but there's no card required to use the bathroom, changing room or showers.  I used to walk my dog at 5 am every morning and I noticed a man there every day.  There are places where the wall is low enough to climb.  I assumed he was homeless, which turned out to be the case. My DH is the VP of the HOA and he and the HOA president had to confront the man and tell him he had to leave.  We never saw him again, but both DH and I think about him often and wonder if there was a better way to deal with the situation.

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There was.

There, but for...

Next time for sure, though, and every time after that.  8)

[Karnerblue]

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@Plaid Pants2 wrote:

Sometimes, not always, but sometimes, they pretend to not understand or speak English.

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I get that a lot where I work.  Cust service in an insurance co.  They call in and in clear English ask for an interpreter, just because they can.

[Drythe]

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@Plaid Pants2 wrote:

Sometimes, not always, but sometimes, they pretend to not understand or speak English.

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Nice.

[Lacey1]

Yuck! Soaking in chlorine, urine and who knows what is pretty disgusting to me. Public pool or toilet?

[debic]

Maybe the guy thought it was a Russian bathhouse.  I don't go to any of those things there's just too much chlorine in them for me.

[151949]

There was another lady at the pool who said she thought he was speaking Swedish - I have never heard of illegal aiens from sweden.  Our area gets many tourists and we often have Europeans vacation or winter here.

[Cakers3]

Just because a person does not speak English does not mean that the person is here illegally.  *eyeroll*

[straykatz]

@Cakers3

/waving Hi .. nice to see you.  

[Venezia]

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@Cakers3 wrote:

Just because a person does not speak English does not mean that the person is here illegally.  *eyeroll*

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Well said.  It would be the same if we were traveling abroad to a country where we didn't speak the language.  Would it be assumed we were there "illegally"?

As for some posts saying that certain people can speak "perfect English" some times - well, maybe they've perfected those phrases to help themselves navigate in a foreign country.  Many Americans do that abroad.

I'm sure there are some who can speak and understand English and choose not to (for whatever reasons of their own).  That doesn't mean all of them are trying to scam you.