Re: Snob, and proud of it.
Well, I was at a Spanish-speaking meeting about 12 years ago in Argentina. I wanted to tell a person to listen to the others in the group who had been around longer, that they had the answers and could help him a lot.
I sat there with my dictionary and plotted out what I was going to say, made notes, then spoke.
He got quite angry and everyone else just glared at me. The meeting was over in about 5 more minutes, and I was avoided except for dirty looks afterward.
I fled, and wonder to this day what it was they heard. I learned a lesson from that.