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I see they have got in swing of things now. :rar:
weather . WTF are people thinking? :headshake

Y'know, this is the only country I know of where the inhabitants try to make ignorance a virtue.

Read your own sig. (Or have I completely misinterpreted your statement? I hope so.)

I guess I was just wondering why english isn't the norm for the usa. As in CA. where they had to print vote ballots in something like 23 languages. WTF I know, just a dumb redneck :smack: BTW so nice of you to judge me.

English is the norm. That's why the normal page is in English, and the experimental one is in Spanish.

For now. :eyebrow:

HM. By golly I had almost figured that experimental part out, but why spanish? As much money as wally world & others owe China, why not Chinese?

I guess no one bothered to notice that the page was for Jackson, MS. Hell according to most folks, we've not learned to talk english yet.

That's why I left wiggle room in my statement. I can only judge you by what you say.
In most places, learning 2-3 languages is the norm for literate individuals. Somehow, in the US, knowing more than the required one language is considered a bad thing -- somehow disloyal. What does that say about us? Are we so cock-sure that we have the answer for everything that we can ignore the rest of the world?
- Pie

Refusing to speak English is the bad thing.

We laud the multilingual here, last I checked.

Ask the waitstaff in any major european city. They'll tell you, throughly.

:handup: Vouch for that. I've met most of them.

This thread reminds me of a lame joke:

What do you call a person who speaks 3 languages?
Tri-lingual

What do you call a person who speaks 2 languages?
Bi-lingual

What do you call a person who speaks one language?
American

Like we give a shit what a bunch of snooty servers with superiority complexes think. I don't much care what the waitstaff thinks of me personally here, why would I care there?

because they handle your food before you eat it.

I once could read, speak a fair amount of German, some Indonesian and a little dab of Farsi,sp? Iran. But really in US. As in south. Your not exposed to anything to learn. When I was in school, I don't think they even taught spanish. Couldn't find a teacher? :) Say in Frankfurt, you catch a train. In ten or twelve hours you might pass though six or eight languages. Oh well