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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp
Maybe they just find it nice to speak their own native tongue to each other though. Hasn't that possibility occurred to you? They probably don't give a tuppeny fig about you or whether you can understand them or not because what they are saying to each other is basically none of your business. When I was in Ireland I used to love coming across a fluent Gaeilge speaker. The idea of speaking in Irish to annoy or insult the non speakers never crossed my mind. In fact some of the people born in Ireland couldn't speak the language all that well as they'd grown up speaking English as a first language but if I start off on that topic it's a whole new volatile tangent with the English language having been forced on the people in the past.
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The are supposed to be British, it's the youngsters i'm talking about 'teenagers' who then laugh when they look in your direction, after some remark made by one of them appears to be funny to them. What I do is supprise them by making a remark back in their lingo, they don't like that.