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Hey all... This is my first post on the boards, and seeing as I currently don't work in customer service (Huzzah!), I'm not really surprised to be posting at "Sightings" the first time 
But first, an explanation. it's going to be a bit long, but please bear with me.
This girl, C, I used to attend classes with, is currently one of my contacts on one of my (many) messenger programs. Now, neither of us have English as our native language, and it's not really required around here to learn it, either (you can pass public school while barely speaking English, and never have to worry about it again. In theory.), but to me, English is like my second mother tongue. I love it, and I speak it fluently (or at least as well as I speak my first language
).
This is no secret to anyone who has met me. It's also no secret that quite a bit of my friends are American (including my girlfriend <3), and that I usually speak with them over the same messenger program that I have C listed in as a contact. C barely spoke a word of English. Trust me, it'll be relevant.
Now, I'm sure a lot of you are aware of people sometime writing cute and/or funny sentences after their nickname. I'm one of them, although they sometimes tend to be more weird than anything else. And of course, I write them in English, since most of my local friends speak and write English, too.
But not C. Oh no.
Yesterday, she wrote me a message. Basically, all she wrote was "Why do you keep writing those sentences in English? No one understand them!". And the rest of it could be boiled down to this:
Me: Sorry, but you know a lot of my friends only speak English, and no offense, but you're the only of my contacts who doesn't speak a word of English and has mentioned it as a problem. I'll gladly translate it, though.
Her: But no one can understand any of it! (...Didn't she read what I just wrote?)
Me: ...Actually, they can... I've gotten quite a few comments for it already, all positive. Want me to translate?
Her: Well, you don't have to be so rude about it! Just change it to a language people can understand! B*tch!
Me:
...I was so tempted to put her on ignore, but I figured it wouldn't help if she realized what she had said. This was yesterday morning. It's currently early evening here, and still nothing. Oh well. Can't have them all
But first, an explanation. it's going to be a bit long, but please bear with me.
This girl, C, I used to attend classes with, is currently one of my contacts on one of my (many) messenger programs. Now, neither of us have English as our native language, and it's not really required around here to learn it, either (you can pass public school while barely speaking English, and never have to worry about it again. In theory.), but to me, English is like my second mother tongue. I love it, and I speak it fluently (or at least as well as I speak my first language
). This is no secret to anyone who has met me. It's also no secret that quite a bit of my friends are American (including my girlfriend <3), and that I usually speak with them over the same messenger program that I have C listed in as a contact. C barely spoke a word of English. Trust me, it'll be relevant.
Now, I'm sure a lot of you are aware of people sometime writing cute and/or funny sentences after their nickname. I'm one of them, although they sometimes tend to be more weird than anything else. And of course, I write them in English, since most of my local friends speak and write English, too.
But not C. Oh no.
Yesterday, she wrote me a message. Basically, all she wrote was "Why do you keep writing those sentences in English? No one understand them!". And the rest of it could be boiled down to this:
Me: Sorry, but you know a lot of my friends only speak English, and no offense, but you're the only of my contacts who doesn't speak a word of English and has mentioned it as a problem. I'll gladly translate it, though.
Her: But no one can understand any of it! (...Didn't she read what I just wrote?)
Me: ...Actually, they can... I've gotten quite a few comments for it already, all positive. Want me to translate?
Her: Well, you don't have to be so rude about it! Just change it to a language people can understand! B*tch!
Me:
...I was so tempted to put her on ignore, but I figured it wouldn't help if she realized what she had said. This was yesterday morning. It's currently early evening here, and still nothing. Oh well. Can't have them all
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