I guess the coworker was thinking that by not wishing to be multilingual, you were dismissing the relevance of people who speak other languages. Like how Europeans used to think the "savages" were just babbling away in Foreign and not actually *saying* anything.
But, really, unless you have people to speak whatever other-language with, it is just a hobby and an intellectual exercise.
Maybe, but I still think it was a rather dumb statement to make. Considering the orig. conversation was with a multilingual coworker that I was listening to tell me about the Spanish language and whatnot. It wasn't like I was going "nah, that's just stupid" to the multilingual coworker. It was more of a "hey that's cool that you know that, I'm just not really interested in learning any myself" I even backed up that statement by saying that I'd keep myself away from going to a country where the language was *not* a variation of English so that I wouldn't try to impose on anyone. Since I don't assume that everyone knows my language in other countries.
Meh. I was just annoyed. I mean it is a coworker that normally I have no issue with, and that won't change, but it was a niggling bothersome bit.
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But, really, unless you have people to speak whatever other-language with, it is just a hobby and an intellectual exercise.
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Meh. I was just annoyed. I mean it is a coworker that normally I have no issue with, and that won't change, but it was a niggling bothersome bit.
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