>>This may give you a smile
>>
>>Once in my local convenience store, addressing the store clerk and pointing at the wine shelves, I said:
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>>"Oh, and give me a bottle of that Chilean Sauvignon Blanc" (in my best French accent)
>>"Say that again" she said
>>"What? Sauvignon Blanc?"
>>"Ooh, I love the way you say that. Do you speak Chilean?"
>
>lol
>
>It is amazing how many people I have met from this country and others that have no clue what languages are spoken in South America!

I once saw some Americans being interviewed on telly, asked what language they thought the people in England spoke. Several didn't know. Several thought their own language was "I dunno ... American?"

We have a saying in my home town: Some people are "thick as pigsh*t, half as useful and twice as runny"

:-)