Yea sometimes sarcastic jokes, of which I make a few, don't go very well when people take you serious. At the beginning of that staff meeting the director made a smiling—what I thought joke—comment about my Sesotho ability. He said, “And now Hlompho(me) can speak Sesotho fluently!” They were excited about the two day business session I taught just before this meeting. Clearly they were not there to hear by broken Sesotho because when I jokingly said “yea, I can speak Sesotho perfectly now” they actually believed me. Mistake!
I just read this week that most international, European Union, and other multi-lingual meetings all practice the same rule. The majority language best spoken by the attendees is the language of the meeting.
Yea, no that doesn't make the meeting any less painful. Next time I'm playing deaf or I'll continue working at my Hearts game on the computer.
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