<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=150421.msg6838961#msg6838961">Quote from: Thufir Hawat on 30-08-2012, 17:48:00</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"><strong>Mari</strong><br/>The silence was shocked.<br/>"Did you, like, just call me a loser, Mari? Or am I to pretend I've misheard? And for that matter, why aren't we talking in Spanish, like decent people?"<br/>Gabi didn't seem to take such words well, and was now on the offensive. And she might have missed the memo that Maria was Brazilian, or maybe thought that they speak Spanish in Brazil. The girl had seemed smart to Mari, but didn't have much book-type smarts.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><strong><br/>Mari<br/>A Tiny condo on the beach<br/>Kind of disappointed</strong><br/>Mari did a double take. Not only did this girl have no sense of humor, she didn't even know the difference between Spanish and Portuguese. What a bummer. "<I'm sorry I only speak Portuguese and English, I came to America legally you see.>" She joked in her native tongue, half hoping the two languages were different enough that the other girl wouldn't understand she had been insulted again, and half not caring. She waited a few moments for Gabi to wonder what she just said before replying in English again. "I said I'm sorry I was just kidding, and I don't speak Spanish because I'm from Brazil, where we speak Portuguese. Do you want to come see this fight or not?" She tied her shoes, pulled on her Semitransparent raincoat, garbed her purse, and stepped outside into the rain.