Martian, you're my hero.
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Originally Posted by ursae_
Still...
"What really shocked me, though, was that this fluently English-speaking, well-educated Californian had no idea that it wasn't appropriate to talk above a whisper in a library, much less chat on a cell phone."
what is this trash about?
Would an immigrant speaking broken English not have been expected to know better than to be rude in a library?
Libraries are not exclusive to the U.S., and I assure you common courtesy is not either.
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I tend to give a little slack to someone who doesn't seem to come from the same general educational background as me. Not meant in offense, just saying they had been through the same education I had, and yet didn't understand a very basic rule. I probably wouldn't have said anything to someone who was carrying on a phone conversation in Swahili, for fear of running into a language berrrior.