Words of wisdom from my awesome son-in-law on Facebook this morning. My daughter is a very lucky woman. [View all]
"Do you know what bothers me about hearing people speak foreign languages in public? When I don't know and can't even guess what the language is. I just want to know what it is! And it reminds me that there's so much to learn and know and I'm just a tiny finite being who will never know even a measurable fraction of it.
You know what doesn't bother me about it? Literally anything else. I love that it means there's diversity around me. I love that it means that where I am is desirable enough that people come from all over the world to be here.
Why would it bother me that I can't understand what people are saying a few feet away from me? I can't understand any of the utterances I'm too far away from to hear, or that are said in private or whispered. I don't get what upsets people so much about someone speaking (or singing) in another language."
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