Re: Tourist hat attire for Italy

DDT Filled Mormons <deepfreudmoors@eITmISaACTUALLYiREAL!l.nu> wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 09:27:58 +0000, The Reid
> <dontuse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >Following up to B Vaughan
> >
> >>The problem with learning to ask simple questions in any unknown
> >>language is that you encourage the other party to give you long,
> >>complicated answers.
> >
> >"is firenze that way" <point> type questions are much better.
>
> If you try the "Is blahblah that way?" in Asia, they are likely to
> just say yes, if they know or not!

I remember reading some travel advice before going to Thailand which
advised that it was a good idea to phrase questions in such a way that a
'yes' or 'no' wasn't possible, as Thai's found it very hard to say 'no'
to a question. A couple of times, we had a taxi driver take us to the
wrong place- we don't think they were trying to take us to their uncle's
restaurant either. Paradoxically (or maybe not) I found them to be very
honest people!

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