Anyone else annoyed by the little amount of ppl that speak english nowadays?

--I understand where you're comin from OP.
--I live in San Diego. The Tijuana border is basically 10 miles away.
 
English is the only language I speak and thats why I don't expect everyone in America to speak English.
 
Originally Posted by the north west

Originally Posted by Essential1

Maybe since they are in America.. They should speak the official language.. Ohhhhhhhhhhh that's right, there isn't one.. People can speak whatever the hell they want... It will be an issue trying to get around but English is not the official language so ahhh well..
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If you are working at a job that requires you to communicate with the public then you better know how to speak English

For people who don't want to learn English there are many jobs that don't require knowing it, like working in the field or warehouses

bottom line is no one needs to know how to speak English, but if you are working at a job that deals with the public, like food services, then you better know how to speak English or find another line of work
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False. A job in food services pays sooo little that that's the kind of employees that will work there. The bottom line is, they don't speak english and they STILL got hired, so therefore it's not a requirement, and it's not going to change any time soon. You get what you pay for... you want someone in food service to speak to you in english? Don't eat ##+$ for food. The fact of the matter is, if you eat at Burger King regularly (just an example) they know that you probably won't stop eating there no matter who they hire. It's the lowest quality crap you can put in your stomach and you expect better service? It's all about profit. You want better service? Eat better food, pay more money.
  
 
nah, my city is purely black and white...and some asian...english is mandatory out here
 
When I was living in Jackson Heights everyone just assumed you were Spanish speaking.

I even gave up ordering for delivery from a few places because no one working was able to understand English.
 
Honestly, I actually try to improve upon my spanish while helping them improve upon their english.

It's a win-win.

Embrace difference, OP.
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Originally Posted by wren32

If you wanna live here and be accepted learn english it should be required that before you can be a citizen you must be able to fluently speak english that can be understood by most people. I work at finishline and I hate when mexicans come in and cant speak enligsh or have their kid translate for them. pisses me off.
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Just Mexicans? At least you're not a complete racist. And how did you know they were Mexican? Do they walk in wearing flags or name tags that read, "Hola, yo soy Mexicano" ?

Deal with it.

  
 
Yea I is not be getin how dez ppl cum her to asmerica n dnt evn spek porpa englisinsh.
 
Originally Posted by LosALMIGHTY

Originally Posted by wren32

If you wanna live here and be accepted learn english it should be required that before you can be a citizen you must be able to fluently speak english that can be understood by most people. I work at finishline and I hate when mexicans come in and cant speak enligsh or have their kid translate for them. pisses me off.
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Just Mexicans? At least you're not a complete racist. And how did you know they were Mexican? Do they walk in wearing flags or name tags that read, "Hola, yo soy Mexicano" ?

Deal with it.

  
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Even I laughed at the hypocrisy of the title.. then folk actually jumped it off with "I be at"............ and I'm just stuck, like.... you just can't script irony this potent. It just has to happen. And you just have to be there.
 
Originally Posted by wren32

If you wanna live here and be accepted learn english it should be required that before you can be a citizen you must be able to fluently speak english that can be understood by most people. I work at finishline and I hate when mexicans come in and cant speak enligsh or have their kid translate for them. pisses me off.
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English is not our official language... how about YOU learn THEIR language? 

  
 
porque estas enojado?

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No, English may not be the official language as stated by law here in the USA, but that's what we speak here and that's how we as Americans communicate and conduct business among one another. When people come here from other countries to immerse themselves in our American culture they learn English, not Spanish or any other language. Any other language besides English remains on the fringes of our social fabric as far as how we live our lives here in this country. Accept it.
 
what annoys me more then anything is when you got people who were born in this country speak beyond improper. ill never forget when i was a teachers assistant for a class back when i was in high school and i had to fix all the mistakes on everyones papers and one of the papers i corrected was seriously written like the way ninjahood types on here. dude was in the 11th grade and typed like a second grader.  i remember marking it everywhere he needed to make corrections and when i gave it back to him he gave me the
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and asked me what was wrong with it because he thought you were supposed to type the way you talk.
 
its funny u bring this up..... brazilians are the WORST wen it comes to this..... have u ever been in best buy and listen to them asking for help?? it goes something like this..... "PLEASE PLEASE do u have 30 JIGGA ipod??"......... YES THEY SAY JIGGA INSTEAD OF GIG LMAOOOOOOOOO...... also have u noticed in best buys that get ALOT of tourist they have signs that say word 4 word "Here Pay" at the registers..... LMAOOOOOOOOO its so funny to me...... also at Nike wen they say the name Nike they dont pronounce the E they say it how they see it....... this is how brazilians ask 4 stuff at Nike "PLEASE PLEASE do have Rift, Tight, Shox??"........ LMAOOOOOOOOO its so funny how they ask 4 things without adding a S to the end of there words....... na but 4REAL if u eva wana no if sum1 is brazilian just check if they have Nike Rifts or Nike Shoxs on with Nike Tights running around Best Buy asking for JIGGA ipods LMAOOOOOOOOO!!! (wen I 1st heard them say that I was like..... "huh Jigga What??..... Hov???" LMAOOO
 
Originally Posted by SIRIUS LEE HANDSOME

No, English may not be the official language as stated by law here in the USA, but that's what we speak here and that's how we as Americans communicate and conduct business among one another. When people come here from other countries to immerse themselves in our American culture they learn English, not Spanish or any other language. Any other language besides English remains on the fringes of our social fabric as far as how we live our lives here in this country. Accept it.
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Uhm... nahhh.

If you knew anything about "Social Fabric" you'll know there are cultural pockets where people of a similar ethnicity group together. Many of which are first generation immigrants who don't speak English. Their kids speak english though, and go to school here, get an education here, and compete with the other kids here and do exceptionally well, I might add.

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Published: March 20, 2010

Went to a big Washington dinner last week. You know the kind: Large hall; black ties; long dresses. But this was no ordinary dinner. There were 40 guests of honor. So here’s my Sunday news quiz: I’ll give you the names of most of the honorees, and you tell me what dinner I was at. Ready?

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Linda Zhou, Alice Wei Zhao, Lori Ying, Angela Yu-Yun Yeung, Lynnelle Lin Ye, Kevin Young Xu, Benjamin Chang Sun, Jane Yoonhae Suh, Katheryn Cheng Shi, Sunanda Sharma, Sarine Gayaneh Shahmirian, Arjun Ranganath Puranik, Raman Venkat Nelakant, Akhil Mathew, Paul Masih Das, David Chienyun Liu, Elisa Bisi Lin, Yifan Li, Lanair Amaad Lett, Ruoyi Jiang, Otana Agape Jakpor, Peter Danming Hu, Yale Wang Fan, Yuval Yaacov Calev, Levent Alpoge, John Vincenzo Capodilupo and Namrata Anand.

No, sorry, it was not a dinner of the China-India Friendship League. Give up?

O.K. All these kids are American high school students. They were the majority of the 40 finalists in the 2010 Intel Science Talent Search, which, through a national contest, identifies and honors the top math and science high school students in America, based on their solutions to scientific problems. The awards dinner was Tuesday, and, as you can see from the above list, most finalists hailed from immigrant families, largely from Asia.

Indeed, if you need any more convincing about the virtues of immigration, just come to the Intel science finals. I am a pro-immigration fanatic. I think keeping a constant flow of legal immigrants into our country — whether they wear blue collars or lab coats — is the key to keeping us ahead of China. Because when you mix all of these energetic, high-aspiring people with a democratic system and free markets, magic happens. If we hope to keep that magic, we need immigration reform that guarantees that we will always attract and retain, in an orderly fashion, the world’s first-round aspirational and intellectual draft choices.

This isn’t complicated. In today’s wired world, the most important economic competition is no longer between countries or companies. The most important economic competition is actually between you and your own imagination. Because what your kids imagine, they can now act on farther, faster, cheaper than ever before — as individuals. Today, just about everything is becoming a commodity, except imagination, except the ability to spark new ideas.

If I just have the spark of an idea now, I can get a designer in Taiwan to design it. I can get a factory in China to produce a prototype. I can get a factory in Vietnam to mass manufacture it. I can use Amazon.com to handle fulfillment. I can use freelancer.com to find someone to do my logo and manage my backroom. And I can do all this at incredibly low prices. The one thing that is not a commodity and never will be is that spark of an idea. And this Intel dinner was all about our best sparklers.

Before the dinner started, each contestant stood by a storyboard explaining their specific project. Namrata Anand, a 17-year-old from the Harker School in California, patiently explained to me her research, which used spectral analysis and other data to expose information about the chemical enrichment history of “Andromeda Galaxy.
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Originally Posted by mYKiCkZArEaG21

its funny u bring this up..... brazilians are the WORST wen it comes to this..... have u ever been in best buy and listen to them asking for help?? it goes something like this..... "PLEASE PLEASE do u have 30 JIGGA ipod??"......... YES THEY SAY JIGGA INSTEAD OF GIG LMAOOOOOOOOO...... also have u noticed in best buys that get ALOT of tourist they have signs that say word 4 word "Here Pay" at the registers..... LMAOOOOOOOOO its so funny to me...... also at Nike wen they say the name Nike they dont pronounce the E they say it how they see it....... this is how brazilians ask 4 stuff at Nike "PLEASE PLEASE do have Rift, Tight, Shox??"........ LMAOOOOOOOOO its so funny how they ask 4 things without adding a S to the end of there words....... na but 4REAL if u eva wana no if sum1 is brazilian just check if they have Nike Rifts or Nike Shoxs on with Nike Tights running around Best Buy asking for JIGGA ipods LMAOOOOOOOOO!!! (wen I 1st heard them say that I was like..... "huh Jigga What??..... Hov???" LMAOOO
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You picked the wrong thread to type like an idiot, buddy.
 
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