I've noticed certain people with kind of obnoxious verbal habits when traveling. Here they are in a pretentious list:
1) Using the verb "do" when referring to places visited or having intent to visit.
Yeah, I did Bandipur, or I'm hoping to do Thailand and South East Asia next year.
This implies to me that places are activities, or duties, like "I did the laundry", or a checklist, rather than actual real places where people live. Also, sometimes a place is criticized due to some preceived lack.
I hated Gorakphur, there's nothing to do there.
2)Using words like "they" or "them" or "these people".
They don't seem to mind bumpy roads. These people always rip me off.
Obvious. Generalizations.
3) Using baby talk when talking to non-native speakers.
Where bus station? How far Ghorka is?
Dropping out articles, scrapping prepositions, not conjugating verbs, or just messing up the order of the sentence. Often speaking these bizarre phrases a little too loud, even when the listener is clearly well spoken. Once even, after baby talk was responded to with a clear and reasonable answer, I was turned to and quietly told, "that's the trouble, sometimes they just don't understand".
Friday, August 28, 2009
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