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Originally posted by Flyboy70:

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Originally posted by The Hoffinator:

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Originally posted by Uncle Tupelo:

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There's nothing wrong with being bilingual.

You said it yourself. There is nothing wrong with being bilingual. So these people need to be bilingual and learn to speak English.

I agree. But I don't think we should be stubborn and holier-than-thou ourselves, about it. I think we should all be bilingual too.

Just curious Hoff. What other languages do you speak?

Spanish and Japanese. I'm working on French.

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Originally posted by The Hoffinator:

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Originally posted by Flyboy70:

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Originally posted by The Hoffinator:

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Originally posted by Uncle Tupelo:

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There's nothing wrong with being bilingual.

You said it yourself. There is nothing wrong with being bilingual. So these people need to be bilingual and learn to speak English.

I agree. But I don't think we should be stubborn and holier-than-thou ourselves, about it. I think we should all be bilingual too.

Just curious Hoff. What other languages do you speak?

Spanish and Japanese. I'm working on French.

Cool

mushi mushi (sp?) that's all I ever learned after working in both the Toyota and Honda plants here in Bama. It's always a hoot to hear the people come in here fresh - (we un's don't sound quite like the Rosetta Stone lessons they took before coming here). There was a contract liaison rep from Japan that intimidated everyone on one of the construction sites. For some reason I always made him laugh. He may have been laughing with me or at me, it didn't matter. I was glad that he called me friend in Japanese before he left. The particular word that he used must have meant something special because his hoard of assistants all bowed and shook my hand as they left the room.

True Story:

At work I call in meds to pharmacies. 90% of the time I leave the prescriptions on voicemail at the bigger chains. (CVS, RiteAid, Walgreens, etc) and I always get the recording "Press 1 for English followed by spanish speaking version saying to press two for spanish" ....

One day I was swamped and a co-worker was helping me.

Everything was going well but we were both aggrevated at the volume of calls we seemed to be making. Anyway, at lunch that day she said...

"Even if I didn't speak English and wanted to hear the options in Spanish I couldn't because the #'s on the phone are in English.."

Yes, she's blonde- Blonder than me.

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Originally posted by Alabamamom:
True Story:

At work I call in meds to pharmacies. 90% of the time I leave the prescriptions on voicemail at the bigger chains. (CVS, RiteAid, Walgreens, etc) and I always get the recording "Press 1 for English followed by spanish speaking version saying to press two for spanish" ....

One day I was swamped and a co-worker was helping me.

Everything was going well but we were both aggrevated at the volume of calls we seemed to be making. Anyway, at lunch that day she said...

"Even if I didn't speak English and wanted to hear the options in Spanish I couldn't because the #'s on the phone are in English.."

Yes, she's blonde- Blonder than me.

Amom Thats funny. I told my blonde neice It was a blonde who invented dehydrated water she said"Thats a good idea"

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Originally posted by The Hoffinator:

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Originally posted by Uncle Tupelo:

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There's nothing wrong with being bilingual.

You said it yourself. There is nothing wrong with being bilingual. So these people need to be bilingual and learn to speak English.

I agree. But I don't think we should be stubborn and holier-than-thou ourselves, about it. I think we should all be bilingual too.

Okay, Hillary...