Foreigners

Last night, I met a bunch of friendly foreigners. (Yes, I am a foreigner, too). They all spoke English. Every single one of them. Even before they knew I was American, they'd introduce themselves to me in English with their German, French, Pakistani, Spanish, or cadaver* accent.

Even foreign couples speak English to each other! Like, if a Russian girl is dating a French guy, they probably speak English to each other. All this English language makes me feel fortunate... and guilty for not being fluent in anything else. I did show off my German counting skills, though. I am brilliant when it comes to counting to twenty in German. Eins, zwei, drei, vier...

I was talking to a German guy about it and he said, "But we hear a lot in English, like music and movies. I can't imagine if everything I heard was in my language. Can you?"

"Yes," I answered, "because just about everything I hear is in English. Every song, pretty much every movie, every TV show...." (I finished this quote just so I could include the links.)

And surprisingly, he was a little surprised.

That English. What a language.

*If you haven't figured out what "cadaver" means because you have been living on the former-planet Pluto or something, one uses "cadaver" or "cadav" to mean "whatever" or "whatev", respectively. This word is all the rage with me and about two of my friends.