You're sitting in a coffee shop and you hear a couple beside you rattling off in some other language and you have no blessed idea what they're saying. I had a Korean roommate one year in college; you can imagine the (often humorous) barriers... I've always found it so interesting to think that those weird sounds they're making actually make sense to the other person. Sometimes a language difference can cause you to think the person is less educated (it's shallow, but don't deny it, it happens).
So I've always wondered what we, as English speakers, must sound like to foreigners.
This gives me an idea.
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