hyporational comments on How to choose a country/city? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Alexandros 03 November 2013 11:15:59AM *  1 point [-]

I'd be shocked if you found it common in Greece for people to be able to speak English but refuse to, like the French/Germans are known to do.

Greeks are proud of their language/culture/whatever to a severe fault, but they don't have pretensions of being a world language that others ought to know.

Comment author: hyporational 03 November 2013 11:55:30AM 2 points [-]

World language pretentions are another factor entirely, seemed to be a real problem only in France. I can't say I've met any people who outright refused to speak english if they clearly knew it, I'm just saying that in some countries you have to push it a bit more. If you're Greek, you probably know better.