Bathroom Multilingualism

First: Sorry that my "brief" note of complaint turned into a ranting essay.

My main point: So I was lying in the bath – which was absolutely fabulous by the way – and I started reading all the bottles along the edge. I started reading all the foreign language directions on how to wash your hair or use the bubble bath. It is very interesting to learn these directions in multiple languages. But what I wanted to tell you was – there were 12 different languages represented in our bathroom alone. That is more than the number of official languages in the European Union before the May 2004 enlargement. There were directions in English, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Czech, Slovakian, (which are very similar languages actually – just a few letters different!), Swedish, and Norwegian (also very similar). There was also one that I couldn’t identify which I think was possibly Luxembourgish but I am not sure. Most bottles had three or four language (with the exception of mine that came from the U.S.) The most interesting one, had Polish, Czech, and Slovakian. No one in my house is from any of those countries, so I think the German guy bought it – and it doesn’t even have German on it! He is from East Berlin, very close to these countries, so it is most likely his. Well now you know way too much about my upstairs bathroom – but I am very proud of our multilingual bath time reading.