Small Talk
This happened recently when I was in Malta. My friend is Bulgarian and she has friends from all over the place there too, so we all speak English. However, I’m Dutch and when we were eating at this restaurant, there was this one old Dutch couple relatively close to our table. The guy kept swearing because he thought we were too loud (we really weren’t, it just seemed they were a bit bitter and sour because they had nothing to say to one another).
Swearing in Dutch is a bit special too since compared to most languages it’s incredibly harsh. It’s basically wishing diseases like cancer and typhus to one another. At some point, he was just kind of mumbling swear words one after the other pretending to look outside the window when even his wife was telling him to stop.
So I turned and I asked in Dutch, “Everything alright? Nice weather out isn’t it?” They replied back in kind and I didn’t hear him swear for the rest of the evening. Dicethrower