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Originally Posted by blueangel
Maybe I misunderstood. I thought you said that this older gentleman (who is from Georgia) called the group from California, "Yankees?" Since you were in London, and that's what Brits call those from the USA, wouldn't you think maybe that's why he said that?
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No, he said it in the "southern" fashion, not the "I'm educated and trying to adapt to british culture" fashion. That was quite evident. My response to him was, "Yes sir, we're from California, but last time I checked yankees lived north of the Mason-Dixon line."
And I say this because their entire group did next to nothing but whine about how small everything was, talk about tractors(no joke here - one of them even had a tractor magazine), and talk crap about my students (they were trying to do it behind their/my backs, but I heard the whole conversation and called them on the fact they they were a group of adults who were whining about a group of kids that were just "different").
It was rather ironic how sweet they all became when they needed me to translate for them in Germany and France though.