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Re:Uber Posts First Quarterly Net Profit of $394M by gerbilly on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @02:32PM (#36960315)
> Have you tried taking a taxi in a country where you didn’t know the language?

Yes, lots of times.

It helps to know the rudiments of the language, but mostly we communicated in a kind of pidgin.

Travel books used to have lists of phrases at the very back for this kind of thing. People figured it out.

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Re:Uber Posts First Quarterly Net Profit of $394M by scarface_74 on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @03:08PM (#36960961)
How many different countries and phrase books only takes you so far. I know barely enough Spanish to almost get by. But I wouldn’t have wanted to depend on it when I was in Los Cabos for three weeks staying in a hotel and I definitely wouldn’t have been as comfortable going around Mexico hailing a cab and giving directions as I was with Uber - and also needing cash.
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