Just as I walked into the factory this morning, my belt broke. What the hey?
During a meeting I was in right after lunch, my boss had trouble pronouncing the word "tentative". He turned to me to ask if that was correct, and I obligingly pronounced it for him. As everyone chuckled, another associate of ours said, "It's a good thing we have a native english speaker in the room." It hadn't occurred to me before he said it, but I was indeed in the conference room with two Germans, an Austrian, a Palestinian, and an (East) Indian. Later this afternoon, the Indian was called by an Assembly line coach from Tanzania, and they spoke to each other in Hindi, a language i had never heard before.
What can I say? It's a world wide web, i guess.
