Re: The Dumb and the Dumber was Re: the difference between Latvia and Lithuania

On 29 July, 07:01, Anton <anton.use...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
vello kirjoitti:

On Jul 29, 12:18 am, Dmitry <dmitrijsfedot...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
For healthcare, it is essential to give help in patients own language
if only possible. for Baltics, maybe  be special medical centres must
be created, at least in Estonia and Latvia with service in Russian
readily available. normally I think I'm fluent in Russian, but if to
think about diseases just pestis and sniffle are only ones I know how
to call them in Russian, so without service in Estonian I would be in
trouble (I got my russian in age anything tied to health was dad-mummy
things to me)
I'm sure you knowledge in Russian medical terminology is far better
than mine -)))
Don't know, you have Russian first name - no russian roots?

Medical terminology is universal, latin-derived. I also have trouble
understanding the medical words in my own mother tongue :)

But it is
true that language what is OK for "small talk" may appear useless if
you had to deal with some specific area not covered in usual beer
talks.

There was a big debate here about a Swedish speaking woman who had an
emergency and called 112 (it's 911 in Yankee-land). The woman addressed
the call center employee in Swedish, but the employee told her harshly
to speak in Finnish. (The call center is supposed to have Swedish
speaking staff, but it was not the Swedish speaker's shift that night or
something). The woman who normally spoke Finnish fluently had trouble to
express herself in Finnish in an emergency situation.

--
Anton

These things can get over the top. They should just chill out and try
to be helpful to those who need their help.
.

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