I recently went to a Somali restaurant to buy food, while I was waiting there was an old man in the restaurant noisily attracting attention to himself. Very old, with big black sun glasses, looked a bit homeless. He was drinking soup with a spoon. He kept speaking a lot of gibberish, changing English to Arabic. When he spoke Arabic, he would enunciate the words and speak with pride, louder, even gesticulating with fingers to express his point. The Other Somalis male and female in the restaurant paid a particular attention whenever the old man spoke Arabic. They had this pride, and envy expression on their faces. Like they wished they could speak a decent Arabic like him. Some of them even clapped hands. I chuckled remembering this thread.
