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How to Avoid Looking Like an American Tourist
Pipedream:
Hi David!! :-*
On the subject of recognizing American tourists, I guess they can't really disguise. I grew up in a town with an American army base in Germany, and, looking at people in the streets, I could always tell who was American and who wasn't. It's not only the clothes, but also the way people move, their facial features, hairdos and glasses, how they laugh and look around. I can't really put my finger on it. It's their whole appearance. Once, a cousin from the United States who visited us wanted to try out his German vocabulary on a guy walking past our house, saying aloud "Guten Abend!". I told him, that was an American GI, and he asked how I knew. I couldn't really explain it. It was just so obvious. On the other hand, I also recognize German tourists anywhere...
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Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Pipedream on May 08, 2009, 05:25:25 pm ---Hi David!! :-*
On the subject of recognizing American tourists, I guess they can't really disguise. I grew up in a town with an American army base in Germany, and, looking at people in the streets, I could always tell who was American and who wasn't. It's not only the clothes, but also the way people move, their facial features, hairdos and glasses, how they laugh and look around. I can't really put my finger on it. It's their whole appearance. Once, a cousin from the United States who visited us wanted to try out his German vocabulary on a guy walking past our house, saying aloud "Guten Abend!". I told him, that was an American GI, and he asked how I knew. I couldn't really explain it. It was just so obvious. On the other hand, I also recognize German tourists anywhere...
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Call it "tourist-dar," maybe?
Works like gaydar, but it detects tourists instead? ;D
brokeplex:
--- Quote from: LauraGigs on May 07, 2009, 02:50:01 am ---Christ, this is on a university website? (Obviously they weren't using a dictionary...)
Very interesting advice overall, though.
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Its just the "Aggies" Laura, we have learned to be patient with them here in Texas.
brokeplex:
--- Quote from: HerrKaiser on May 08, 2009, 07:14:49 pm ---men who are clearly dressed in uncomfortable, girly-like shirts and pants that their wives got on sale for the trip. Dead give away.
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Are they the "Girlie-men" the "Ar-nold" spoke of?
"Don't Be Economic Girlie Men!"
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: brokeplex on May 08, 2009, 07:32:25 pm ---Its just the "Aggies" Laura, we have learned to be patient with them here in Texas.
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