It's interesting to listen to people and to see how things are expressed. A lot of English gets thrown into the mix. For example, in Belgium we sat on the train beside a couple speaking Flemish. As they talked, we caught the following phrases:
soft landing
FYI (repeated numerous times)
beautiful people
buyer beware
In Rovinj, the waitress was speaking Croatian to the next table and when she got an order wrong, she said, "My bad."
This part of Croatia (the Istrian peninsula) speaks both Croatian and Italian.
On a shop in Rovinj there was a sign advertising "sendvici" or sandwiches.
This is another one of the joys of entering another culture.
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