It's comforting to know our beloved local grocer is helping us all understand what everyone else is thinking and talking about. Dahl's ban on non-English conversation by employees will at least calm the fretting from self-centered customers who think they deserve to eavesdrop on any conversation around them. How appropriate a policy given that the world will probably lose half its spoken languages over the next century. If everyone would just speak English we wouldn't be bothered with all those quirky languages us Americans don't understand.
It reminds me of a fitting joke. What do you call someone who speaks three languages? Trilingual. Two languages? Bilingual. And what do you call someone who speaks one language? American.
Dahl's' insensitive reaction to narrow-minded customers who are so paranoid to think that whenever someone is speaking another language in their presence that they are being made fun of, may just be the most American policy in the workplace.
- William Mikesell, Clive
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