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jonnyGURU

jonnyGURU

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I dropped my wife off at the airport, but she insisted that I see her through the ticket line.

The line came to a SCREECHING halt when a woman stopped and stared at the computer terminals that you check in at FROM the velvet rope.

THE DREADED VELVET ROPE.

We stood there for 15 minutes. She wouldn't move forward. It's as if she was waiting for someone behind the counter to call "next please" which they don't do anymore. You check in at the terminal and THEN they call you up.

Eventually, someone walked through and said, "There's an empty terminal here, here and here." My wife then pointed and said, "Go ahead and use that one."

The guy in front of us finally pushed the lady out of the way and went to a terminal. The lady began cursing at that guy..... IN SPANISH.

You see, the terminals can be used in English or Spanish. But the main screen that tells you what they're for is in English with only a button that says "Espanol." CLEARLY not accomodating enough.

Ok. We're in an airpoirt. International flights coming in and out. It would be rather presumptious for me to expect everyone to speak English.

So after I drop off my wife, I got to the supermarket.

Publix has two express lanes. I'm in one and in the other is a lady with a cart that has so many groceries in it, the items are actually MOUNDED over the top. I'd have to say it was about a $200 grocery bill in that cart.

I just watched with a smile on my face thinking, "They can't POSSIBLY think they're going to get away with that."

After the entire conveyor belt was full, the clerk said to the shoppers, "You can't bring all of those groceries up here. This is an express lane."

"Que?"

"Express lane."

"Que."

"Express lane."

"Que."

"Express lane."

"Que."

"Express lane."

"Que."

"Express lane."

I just laughed.

What's funny is when I'm in Miami, EVERYTHING is in Spanish. I've been to a Publix, Walgreens and Home Depot on Flagler Blvd and ALL of them have ALL of their signs in Spanish. I get lost. I think I feel like what these Spanish speaking folks feel like when they're in my neck of the woods and everything is in English.

Funny thing is, I found it more amusing than frustrating. I knew what most of the words were, so I got by. Managed to score a sandwich and a 6-pack at Publix. Goody's headache powder was where it should be at the Walgreen and I do admit that finding where the 5MM bolts were at the Home Depot was a bit of a challenge, but Miami is 90% Spanish speaking. What did I expect?

I'm not going to say EVERYONE has to be fluent in English if they're going to live in America. That's pretty ignorant. America is a great melting pot and I would never change that for the world. But if you're going to go out into an English speaking world and don't at least have someone with you that can help you in your travels, something has to change. Because you're just pissing people off around you. 😉
 
Originally posted by: jonnyGURU
I dropped my wife off at the airport, but she insisted that I see her through the ticket line.

The line came to a SCREECHING halt when a woman stopped and stared at the computer terminals that you check in at FROM the velvet rope.

THE DREADED VELVET ROPE.

We stood there for 15 minutes. She wouldn't move forward. It's as if she was waiting for someone behind the counter to call "next please" which they don't do anymore. You check in at the terminal and THEN they call you up.

Eventually, someone walked through and said, "There's an empty terminal here, here and here." My wife then pointed and said, "Go ahead and use that one."

The guy in front of us finally pushed the lady out of the way and went to a terminal. The lady began cursing at that guy..... IN SPANISH.

You see, the terminals can be used in English or Spanish. But the main screen that tells you what they're for is in English with only a button that says "Espanol." CLEARLY not accomodating enough.

Ok. We're in an airpoirt. International flights coming in and out. It would be rather presumptious for me to expect everyone to speak English.

So after I drop off my wife, I got to the supermarket.

Publix hsa two express lanes. I'm in one and in the other is a lady with a cart that has so many groceries in it, the items are actually MOUNED over the top. I'd have to say it was about a $200 grocery bill in that cart.

I just watched with a smile on my face thinking, "They can't POSSIBLY think they're going to get away with that."

After the entire conveyor belt was full, the clerk said to the shoppers, "You can bring all of those groceries up here. This is an express lane."

"Que?"

"Express lane."

"Que."

"Express lane."

"Que."

"Express lane."

"Que."

"Express lane."

"Que."

"Express lane."

I just laughed.

What's funny is when I'm in Miami, EVERYTHING is in Spanish. I've been to a Publix, Walgreens and Home Depot on Flagler Blvd and ALL of them have ALL of their signs in Spanish. I get lost. I think I feel like what these Spanish speaking folks feel like when they're in my neck of the woods and everything is in English.

Funny thing is, I found it more amusing than frustrating. I knew what most of the words were, so I got by. Managed to score a sandwich and a 6-pack at Publix. Goody's headache powder was where it should be at the Walgreen and I do admit that finding where the 5MM bolts were at the Home Depot was a bit of a challenge, but Miami is 90% Spanish speaking. What did I expect?

I'm not going to say EVERYONE has to be fluent in English if they're going to live in America. That's pretty ignorant. America is a great melting pot and I would never change that for the world. But if you're going to go out into an English speaking world and don't at least have someone with you that can help you in your travels, something has to change. Because you're just pissing people off around you. 😉
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I say, anyone that can't converse in english after a year in the US should be catapulted back where they came from

edit: I try to get angry but then I realize they're just dooming themselves to poverty and mediocrity since they refuse to integrate into the rest of american society. but then again someone has to make our burgers.
 
You know you have a problem when people who don't even live in America can speak better English than the so called Americans

Edit: I mean people from countries whose native language is not English
 
I work in Miami and live in Ft. Lauderdale, I know oh to well what you mean man. I don't think I'd be able to handle living in Miami, its bad enough working there.

Isn't it almost scary how there is no effort in Miami to even have anyone speak English? All the billboards, signs and everything else are all in Spanish, craziness!

 
It's unavoidable, it's a numbers game and the number of Spanish speakers in this country is growing to the point that it's taking over as an official language. It's especially helped along by capitalism combined with political correctness; business has found that they can increase sales by catering to people who can't speak English or speak it well, and suggesting we prevent them from doing so would be frowned upon. Kind of ironic, since English is pushed so hard everywhere else in the world, often required by schools as a second language.
 
The world really should bring the catapult back into play, in terms of sentencing.
 
Originally posted by: yllus
The world really should bring the catapult back into play, in terms of sentencing.
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Seriously. It's comedy and justice all rolled up into one cool contraption
 
Same thing in New Jersey, most state property and healthcare facilities are subtitled in spanish now. Que pasa? No Mucho.

 
Live and let live, speak any dialect you wish but damn when you are in public at least talk so people can understand you.
 
Originally posted by: Grey
Same thing in New Jersey, most state property and healthcare facilities are subtitled in spanish now. Que pasa? No Mucho.
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Subtitled is one thing. In Little Havana it's in ALL SPANISH.

But my thing is...

At the airport, you see people using the little computers. You don't know why, but there's a button that says ESPANOL. Press it? Why not? Please?

And at the grocery store, they don't put "EXPRESS LANE: 10 ITEMS OR LESS" in two languages in Tampa, but I know if I was in another country and saw fifteen lanes, two were different than the other 13 and saw the numbers "1" and "0" on the sign, I think I'd figure it out.

Que?
 
I live and work in Miami, and I love it. And I completely agree that over here, emphasis on the importance of english is not well showed, hehe. I come from Colombia, but I got to learn english over there before coming to the U.S, so my adaptation to the ways of life here weren't as a hard as it coud've been if I didn't know the language. I know people that even though they've been living here for many years, don't even bother to learn a sentence in english to continue their lives here. And they don't really have to. Chances are that if you live in Miami, you're gonna be interacting with people who mainly speak spanish, or at least understand it. And this is why they don't even bother to learn english: 90 percent of the time, you're going to be with someone who is from a spanish speaking contry. At least from my personal experiences.
 
Hey, what do I care if someone can't speak English? How far will they really get? Certainly people will figure it out eventually that unless they want to be lower class forever, you need to know English. I can't believe people are scared of Spanish becoming the official language. Get real, yeah, there are a lot of people here that only speak Spanish. And how many of them have jobs above maid or short order cook? English is the official language for reasons other than numbers.
 
How bizzard, considering the great lengths I went to to speak Spanish while in Mexico, and German when in Switzerland. Amazingly, they appreciated it, and with some hand signals and a few nods I always got what I wanted. Minus the time I asked for 4 wine glases and got 4 glasses of wine. That works too, though.
 
You know what is interesting.. the united states doesnt have an official national language.. which is the reason you can get government forms in multiple languages.. granted, it is really frustrating when the most commonly spoken language is english and the person who is working at a job which requires at least the fundamentals of that language does speak it. i just find it ironic that in like, in 50 years, or less or more, the most common language might be spanish, and like, 100 years after that, there can be spanish speakers who get frustrated with people who moved from england saying <spanish>"geeze.. learn to speak spanish.."</spanish> heh :0P but i definitely agree with how frustrating it can get


edit: i just checked out that CIA link... it doesnt say official language.. it just says what is spoken.. its interesting because my econ professor told us about the whole not having an official national language and the different gov't papers in different languages bit.. hmm.. i'll have to see whats up with that.
 
There's not much you can do about it. Even passing laws to make everything in English wouldn't help, because the Spanish-speakers would still wander around confused.

Learn Spanish so you can cuss them out for not knowing English.

¿No hablas Inglés? Vas a una escuela, idiot!

??? ???????????!
 
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