Comments by "Tim Murphy" (@timmurphy5541) on "Brit in Germany" channel.

  1. I feel attacked from all sides. Brexiters make me feel European. The Czech arsehole in my office in Ulm spent so much time moaning about the British that I felt strongly British. When I hear anyone make Irish jokes I feel Irish and when I hear someone disparaging Africa in some way I am Zimbabwean again. It's very tiring to be connected to so many things that you must needs defend all of them and sometimes from each other. :-)
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  2. The tolerance that will be interesting to see is when foreigners like me murder German culture and language. I remember a German exchange student who explained to me, in the most broken English, how he hated hearing foreigners speaking German badly. He seemed to think that we English speakers should be happy with his lack of expertise as if our language wasn't important but German was sacred. I have noticed my cousin's wife complaining that his mistakes pain her. :-). Anyhow, for what its worth I think we all should be trying to rationalise and simplify our languages, including English. One might not want to remove expressive power but I think a lot of what we have is not expressive and is just the junk of time that makes it harder for everyone to be multilingual.
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