I honestly quit shopping there (except once-there was a really good sale and I had some time to kill) because sorting by size has been completely broken since the redesign. I don’t need to be taunted with cute stuff that’s not available to me. You are trying to take my money! Be considerate!

The CEO literally made the “not aspirational” comment in an all-hands meeting. The entire company heard him say it. I was there. Jaws dropped. His propensity to lie is shocking and disgusting.

Gregg Koger feeling disappointed by the criticism, criticism that she can now just wash her hands of, is pretty eye-roll inducing. Like...be disappointed in the direction your company went, in the fact that the CEO is a misogynistic creep, not because people are voicing their concerns about it. Be disappointed that…

One of my best friends is an Iranian immigrant and she and her sibs (and their children - two of her sibs have kids that they are raising bilingually) speak to their parents in Farsi. Actually, I don’t think they were allowed to speak English at home once they got here. Their parents are more comfortable speaking…

I can tell you what I wouldn’t do, which is write my significant other a demanding letter that calls them classless. So, there’s that.

Yes! I love hearing and learning new languages. My mom is a polyglot and I need to learn two more languages but it is a goal. The only other ones (polyglots) I knew came from Zimbabwe I find people either think I’m talking shit about them or I am a foreigner that refuses to assimilate.

I mostly speak in Yoruba to my mother because it is *more respectful* than English. There are formal words in english but there are specific ways to talk to someone older than you in Yoruba and I just find it more comfortable. I will use random english words if I don’t remember the Yoruba word for it.

Most people I know go to pool parties to get in the pool. You know, swim, play water volley-ball, play chicken, ect. It’s hard to do anything even remotely active when your whole outfit is basically a spiderweb made of floss.

People are so weird about this. Like, no, it is not all about you, and people whose first fucking language isn’t English aren’t trying to bother you when they go back and forth. Sheesh.

Okay my wife and I are both bilingual (spanish-English) and I get how it can be off putting if we suddenly switch between them (usually unconsciously) But if your wife is speaking in Spanish to someone else who understands Spanish in your presence. You are an asshole for making a big deal about it. Either learn the…

Agreed. My first language is Spanish, but my main language is English. My parents speak English very well, but it’s a habit of switching to Spanish in front of other people who may or may not understand, when I talk to my family. I promise I’m not trying to be rude people. Some conversations with some people are more…

Are you kidding me? They’re speaking to their family in their native language, the language they have likely spoken together their whole lives, and the language they are most comfortable communicating in. People slip in and out of languages based on context all the time, mostly totally unconsciously. It’s normal and…

You’d think someone would eventually pick something up with that kind of immersion, but my dad (American white guy, now 81) married my mother (Colombian) almost 40 years ago, and despite numerous trips to SA and me speaking Spanish with my mother in the house growing up, he has absolutely no comprehension and his…

But why do we assume she did it intentionally? My husband was born in Afghanistan and grew up in Denmark where I moved to be with him. So when we go to dinner at his parents’ house there are 4 languages spoken at the table, Pashto, Danish, English, and Russian because my sister-in-law’s husband is also afghan but…

I truly hope you’re joking. I slip into Spanish w my mom because that is how she prefers to speak. It’s hard to respond in English when the other person is talking in Spanish.

I need to clear something in this forum with all of you native english speaking fellow americans...when someone speaks spanish or another language he or she is not talking about you. It’s the same when native english speaking people take a trip to a spanish or other language speaking country. You do not speak…

I was 8 when I moved to Spain, with no Spanish language skills whatsoever. Although I went to an English speaking international school, most social communication was in Spanish, with a lot of code-switching tossed in. The first few weeks were terrifying. However, I managed to muddle through. But then again, I actually…

What a fucking misinterpretation of how a multi-lingual relationship goes, Loebass. My partner is Latino. He grew up mostly swapping between both Spanish and English, but for everyone else in the family it was Spanish first, English second. Sometimes we’re all hanging out and the conversation naturally rolls from…

We’re missing any context. Was it always three of them at dinner and she and her friend go on and on in Spanish while he sits there, effectively alone? Or is it a larger group, he has others to talk to and the girls are talking about cramps? Maybe there’s someone there who isn’t as strong in English and Sofia was…

Yeah. My partner has a different native tongue. I do not speak it (tried to learn, but realistically I’m not gonna and she knows and doesn’t care). She speaks it to others. It is my problem, not hers. If I really cared, I could learn it. I don’t. So whatever.