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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Olgar Shiverstone" data-source="post: 1764155" data-attributes="member: 5868">Which is really funny, given that in Southern Germany in particular, you hear a lot of "sh" in place of "ch" (which I'd chalk up to the influence of local dialects).Americans have no business making fun of others' English when we can't speak our own bloody language.  Many times I've been rather embarrased when the non-English speaker I was speaking to spoke much more grammatically correct English than I do.  Though that's fun as well -- trying to explain some Western or Southern American slang to Germans, Arabs, Argentinians, or even Brits.  I once spent a lovely dinner party in England comparing language notes with the woman sitting next to me and sorting through all sorts of mutual understandings.  I'd been horrified by the number of times and variations I'd heard on the radio on the phrase "smoking a fag" during my drive from London, for example; she revealed how she'd always like the song "American Pie" but had no idea what a Chevy or a levee were until she took a trip to New Orleans.I'm headed to Israel in about three weeks.  I can only imagine what sort of linguistic entertainment I'll find there.</blockquote>