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Why do they only allow English in your boardroom? - seems rather limiting.

Sure, but why would other languages be disallowed in the boardroom?

If I ran an international business, there might be people I want in my boardroom that don't speak English.

If you've reached the elvel of being important enough to be in the board room, you either speak English, or have someone who works for you with you, who does. Speaking another language in a meeting is akin to passing a note in class. Anything important enough to say, is important enough to be shared with everyone.

So then an important individual is allowed to speak their own language in the boardroom - they just have to provide their own interpreter. That's cool.

Theoretically, yes. I wouldn't put it past some egotistical morons to actually ignore that and say absolutely only English, though. Mind you, if it's their company, they're free to burn whatever bridges they want to.

During tea all must speak the Queens English.

There really shouldn't be much, if any small talk during the meeting, but I wouldn't think it would be an issue before/after the meeting, unless again, the owner/exec is a super douche.

Yep. A bunch of niggling, pedantic pricks talking about something another niggling, pedantic prick said.

That I can understand.

I'm not sure if I told this before, but I visited a Chinese friend of mine at Perdue and she was telling me how the department head would get mad at her and her friends for talking in Chinese, anywhere on Campus. She was told that she has to practice English. I was embarrassed by that and apologized to her, telling her that is not right. She chose not to fight it since her future is literally in the palms of her hands.

Hell, if it's me running a company there won't be any ambiguity. You wanna work for me, speak English. Everywhere, all the time. In the office, in your car ('cuz I'll bug that sh:t), at your kitchen table, in the shower, in your bed telling your wife to show you the brown star. There is no value to multiple languages. We've taken an archaic form passed on to us by our British oppressors and turned it in to something the entire world should accept and embrace.

I knew I nailed that one.

I learned french and spanish in school, know enough french to struggle reading it, and for spanish the only thing that really stuck in my mind is asking where are the bathrooms?