How To Say "This Is Crap" In Different Cultures

Mike Kerner MikeKerner at roadrunner.com
Wed Feb 26 09:09:59 EST 2014


So if I was to say "iTunes Radio", everyone in every language wouldn't
agree that what I really meant was "Crap"?


On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 3:26 AM, Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 26/02/14 00:13, Mark Wieder wrote:
>
>> Some cross-cultural issues:
>>
>> <http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/02/how-to-say-this-is-crap-in-
>> different-cultures/>
>>
>>
> I take issue with that word 'British' as we Scots from the East coast up
> from Dundee will not
> do things in the same way as people from, say, London.
>
> Within the British Isles there is a vast range of cultural nuances (and
> that is just among the "natives", let alone
> the recent arrivals from the subcontinent, the Caribbean and Africa).
> Similarly so where I stay in Bulgaria,
> which, despite heavy government propaganda (one could say "crap" here with
> impunity) is multicultural
> to an alarming extent.
>
> Cultures and national boundaries to not co-occur.
>
> Richmond.
>
>
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