jennwiththesea

Thank you! We're really looking forward to it. It's such a beautiful country, and the people seem lovely. My daughter has been learning German for a couple years, but I definitely need to work on mine before we go.

This makes sense, too. I know we borrow a ton of words and phrases over here, especially from our neighboring countries and historically from, well, basically all of Europe.

This is great context, thank you! That would make sense about the comments. The hotel owners were responding to folks, but I admit I was reading through things quickly and could have missed someone identifying themselves that way before the hotel responded.

Oh, that's a decent theory! Interesting that you haven't seen it as a German person, too.

Oh yeah, we know that! Between the three of us we can do survivable German, Spanish, and French, as well. I think. 😂

My daughter actually said something like that, that the French names probably just sound fancier, especially to Americans. That would jive with ladyofthrowaway's post above, too.

That's certainly possible! I'm not sure how I would find that out. We're just looking at the places with decent reviews on available sites in the US, like Expedia and TripAdvisor.

I'm honestly not sure. Their mixed use of billions, trillions, kilo, giga, etc was confusing me.

Looks like 4200 gigawatts/yr. https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/electricity-in-the-us-generation-capacity-and-sales.php

Just awful. This child deserved better.

Yes, and

Yeah, Kias look fancier now.