A foolish consistency

[pecunium]

As I was noodling around Blogshares (actually, I was moderating votes on the index) and I found a guy complaining about having to choose beween English and Spanish when he uses the ATM.

I asked him what the problem was, after all, it was capitalism in action.

Comments

[writingortyping.livejournal.com]

...or even if you're bilingual, but it's more convenient for you to think in your native language.

I've selected French a couple of times for the reasons cited above, but as a general rule, I am more than happy to use my native tongue when making financial transactions.

[lexica510.livejournal.com]

My French has gotten so rusty I almost feel unqualified to join the discussion, but anyway... as I remember, even when I was at my most fluent, I still couldn't do math in French. Count, sure. Calculate, not a chance.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Numbers are funny. I still don't think in French numbers, but I do think in Russian ones. What I mean by that is when I read a numeral, in a French text, I appreciate it in English.

When it happens in a Russian one, I appreciate them in Russian, they are transparent to me.

But that's because I can really think in Russian, and only mostly think in French.

TK