--On Thursday, May 23, 2013 13:42 -0500 Behcet Sarikaya <sarikaya2012@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> The locals speaking English might also be more >> understandable. :-) >> >> > In my recent trip to Santiago, Chile, locals not speaking > English turned out to be really painful for someone who can > not speak Spanish, like myself. > > I hope this is different in BA, but I doubt so. Probably about the same as Santiago, at least in my experience with both. The comment about English is Adelaide was presumably intended as a joke -- The various dialects of Aussie are probably not a different language from American English, but the point is occasionally debated. john