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Nail Salons and understanding "the" language
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Shanti
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Re: Nail Salons and understanding "the" language
It doesn't bother me. My grandparents don't really speak English and sometimes when we are out, we will all be laughing and I am sure people around us could think we are laughing at them when we're not. I don't automatically assume they are talking about me.
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Re: Nail Salons and understanding "the" language
Posted by libby2595
Posted by Superkat
My MIL is famous for this. She used to stand right in front of me and insult me in Cantonese. After a particularly insulting incident, I responded to her in Cantonese and she SHUT UP. She hasn't done it since. 
you go girl!
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| Posted 8/7/07 10:17 PM |
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Re: Nail Salons and understanding "the" language
Posted by ladybug8
Posted by ssdbk
I don't mind when they speak to each other in their language. What I do mind is when they either do not understand me or they pretend they don't. I have been to places where the owner has to translate. I'm sorry, I think that the person working on my nails should understand me, especially when I am using "nail related" words in a language that 99 percent of their clientele in this neighborhood uses. The first time I got pink and white, they put the wrong color acrylic on b/c the women did not understand that I actually wanted pink. I kept asking and she kept saying YES over and over again. So I thought that maybe that step came later. Then suddenly she was done and I had no pink (she did a clear and white instead and apparently that is more popular but not what I wanted).
I agree! That happens to me sometimes too.
I am at the point where I speak to the owner and say, things like, "ask her to do it this way, or tell her that." Ordinarily I would think that it would be insulting and rude for me to go through someone else like that, but I have to resort to that.
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