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What seemed weird when I visited your country
GarandMarine:
The Eric hive mind grows ever larger
Method of Madness:
(Checks toof's profile to see if I'm still the oldest Eric) When's your bday, toof? We're both 26!
TRVA123:
--- Quote from: dr. nervioso on 04 Jun 2014, 14:42 ---And another cultural difference I found in the Midwest when I made my glorious return was the ubiquitous use of the phrase "You're fine" whenever domeine made a blunder of some sort. It really creeped me out at first.
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wait, "you're fine" as a way of accepting an apology isn't standard practice elsewhere?
*midwesterner here* I probably say "you're fine" or "no worries" ten or more times a day at work.
Ben:
Calling older friends of the family "aunt" or "uncle" used to be common in the UK and you still hear it occasionally, although it's no longer usual and considers rather "old fashioned". Note that it would not be usual to refer to their children as "cousin" and it would be generally understood who was an actual relative, as opposed to a form of address.
I travel in Asian countries and it's common there for Westerners to be addressed as "Mr (given name)" rather than "Mr (surname)" which is basically an adaptation of a local form of address; it might also be used when referring to someone known to both speakers but not present.
I just shrug it off when people address my by my actual first name on brief acquaintance or as a firm of enforced familiarity (recruiting agent desk staff, for example). Since anyone who actually DOES know me would know that I am almost NEVER called that to my face by people who know not to, it just marks them out as people who have promoted themselves to a specific level of association.
bhtooefr:
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 04 Jun 2014, 20:35 ---(Checks toof's profile to see if I'm still the oldest Eric) When's your bday, toof? We're both 26!
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1988-04-08.
--- Quote from: TRVA123 on 04 Jun 2014, 22:11 ---*midwesterner here* I probably say "you're fine" or "no worries" ten or more times a day at work.
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