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November 05, 2007
No mas
I just thought of something that really annoys me. Every now and then, in the standard romantic comedy, the female love interest will be bilingual. In addition to a charming accent when she speaks English, she'll also dish it out in rapid fire Spanish or French, or maybe Italian. Sometimes, when the hunky guy trying to win her love will make some flirtatious remark, she'll say something derisive in her native tongue. The guy will then either: A, be dumbfounded; or B, say something equally salacious in said language, whereupon the love interest will be severely flustered.
However, this annoys me in real life. Earlier this year, I dated a girl who was fluent in Spanish. Sometimes I would say something, but instead of responding in English, she'd say God knows what in Spanish. To me, when you speak in another language, what you're really doing is expressing your inner thoughts out loud, but assuming nobody else can understand you. Whenever she spoke in Spanish, I just wanted to say "You know I don't speak Spanish! In English please." (Obligatory Anchorman clip here.) If you don't want me to hear it, don't say it! As charming as it is in the movies, it doesn't work in real life. Or maybe that was because she did about 1,000 other things that annoyed me?
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Posted by oz115 at November 5, 2007 11:10 PM