• LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
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      18 hours ago

      Is Starbucks the only coffee shop that requires people to speak Italian? (Honest question from someone who’s never had a desire to go to any coffee shop.)

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        5 hours ago

        Yeah, I’ve been to a lot of cafes, and they all use small, medium, large. Starbucks is just stupid.

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        18 hours ago

        Unless you count “espresso”, “cappuccino” and “macchiato” as speaking Italian, then yes

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          14 hours ago

          I guess we can consider those adopted into English vocabulary since we haven’t replaced them with any English words.

          Kinda like résumé and hors d’oeuvre and a million other French words we have in our normal vocabulary.