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Originally Posted by BlackEleven
Her: Where are those people from?
Me: Jamacia
Her: Both of them?
Me: Yes
Her: Well why aren't they speaking Jamacian to each other then?
Me: Why don't Canadians speak Canadian to each other then?
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I have a story similar to that one. I was down in Arkansas playing baseball and I had a conversation with a ball boy that went like this:
Ballboy: Hey, where are y'all from?
Me: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Ballboy: Oh...Well why don't you speak Canadian?
Me: Pardon?
Ballboy: Speak Canadian for me.
Me: English is the dominant language where I am from.
Ballboy: But those figure skaters have an accent. (talking about Sele and Pelletier, this was shortly after they were ripped off at the Olympics)
Me: They speak French.
Frustrated, I just walked away after that.