April 4, 2007 by Craig
Have you ever noticed that, on TV and in the movies, characters who are not native English speakers tend to use their native language for really simple phrases (“nyet”, “si”, “merci”) and English for anything more complex… and in real life, it’s exactly the other way around?
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Whoa I must have mis-clicked and ended up on the Seinfeld blog
Comment by Ted — April 4, 2007 @ 2:14 pm
Ah, proof that TV writers are in favour of racial profiling. The alterantive is for the TV characters to wear signs: “I’m Russian/Spanish/French”. Then blind people who listen to the TV wouldn’t know the character’s identity.
Comment by T.W. — April 5, 2007 @ 8:32 am