It's a common mistake for vacationing Americans to assume that everyon…

David Sedaris
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It's a common mistake for vacationing Americans to assume that everyone around them is French and therefore speaks no English whatsoever. [...] An experienced traveler could have told by looking at my shoes that I wasn't French. And even if I were French, it's not as if English is some mysterious tribal dialect spoken only by anthropologists and a small population of cannibals. ✨ David Sedaris (2000). Me talk pretty one day
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