I'm not mad, no worries, was just feeling a bit...OK I can't come up with a good word for it haha, but, like I said, a bit on the defense, since the comment came off being a little derisive, to me. I definitely understand the language issue; my residency stuff is only just now *finally* being completed (gotta love bureaucracy! It's the same worldwide! Slower than a snail!! haha), there were no issues or anything, they just take a million years! So due to how long it took them to complete everything, I haven't formally started learning Dutch yet, but will begin a course in 2 mos, at last! (I imagine I probably could have gone to the Huis van het Nederlands on my own before the appt with the Inburgering office, but I didn't realize that at the time. blah.) So yeah I get the difficulties of trying to express sentiments in a language you're less familiar with, I can't even begin to do that yet! ~_^ That, added to the internet without getting the feel for the attitude things are expressed... totally easy for things to be taken differently than intended.
Annnnnyway ;P I know the EU =/= Europe, I was just speaking more broadly there, I suppose that's my fault, heh. And yeah I imagine unless the subject was the whole of Europe or the EU, it's more common to speak of an individual country. But because it's so far removed from the US, it's just more natural for Americans to say "I'm going abroad to Europe/Asia/Australia" rather than name a specific location, that tends to come after a little more questioning and whatnot.
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Date: 2010-09-15 10:01 am (UTC)Annnnnyway ;P
I know the EU =/= Europe, I was just speaking more broadly there, I suppose that's my fault, heh. And yeah I imagine unless the subject was the whole of Europe or the EU, it's more common to speak of an individual country. But because it's so far removed from the US, it's just more natural for Americans to say "I'm going abroad to Europe/Asia/Australia" rather than name a specific location, that tends to come after a little more questioning and whatnot.