Aye. That manner of jerks would probably be jerks no matter what language you tried to use to speak to them. They would just need to come up with some other excuse for being impolite.
Aye. That manner of jerks would probably be jerks no matter what language you tried to use to speak to them. They would just need to come up with some other excuse for being impolite.
Well I wasn't trying to discriminate against the entire Spanish population or anything (even though the incident wasn't isolated, but that's probably just my town...who knows. I don't even like that town - don't claim it, but that's a whole other story) because my Japanese teacher did have stories of when he'd say something wrong/off and would hence amuse his host family or those around him. It's just different when it's "haha, silly American, this is how you say it" compared to "haha, dumbass American."
But I don't even like my town anyway so... Oh fudge and now I have to go to class...*grumbles* 8 more days....8 more days...
"I reject your reality and substitute my own."
A discussion I had with a fellow friend I have given me some points to think about. What is the real cause for this other then human nature refering to ego. Is it that the US's immigrantion law is harder then others (Citing say Canada's) or is it something more?
I'm a Canadian so I'm playing with fire if i try to explain anything to do with American laws so I'll leave that up to other person. Although many in Canada have the same outlook on our immigrants then the US has, however we don't do much about it. Our nationalism is a subtle, easily misunderstood but powerfull reality, expressed in a way that is not to state directed - something like a beer commercial or the death of a significant Canadian figure.
However as another famous quote about us has said
"What is a Canadian? A Canadian is a fellow wearing English tweeds, a Hong Kong shirt and Spanish shoes, who sips Brazilian coffee sweetened with Philippine sugar from a Bavarian cup while nibbling Swiss cheese, sitting at a Danish desk over a Persian rug, after coming home in a German car from an Italian movie... and then writes his Member of Parliament with a Japanese ballpoint pen on French paper, demanding that he do something about foreigners taking away our Canadian jobs."
image fail!
I'd pay $100 for someone to build my deck.
All I know is that it sucked driving around LA last monday.
10/4/04 - 8/20/07
If I knew how to build a deck I'd do it. Haha. And I would hate to imagine the driving situation. Gotta hurry up and get published so I move out to my Colorado cabin in the woods...
Yes, that's right. When all else fails my plan is to leave everything behind as much as possible. I'm out of other ideas/effective options.
"I reject your reality and substitute my own."
I just read a few of the reactions to my earlier post concerning the whole 'immigrants should learn english' thing. To clarify, I don't mean they should be fluent by any means, but it'd be nice if they could speak and understand it to a certain degree.
We have a classroom where non-english speaking students learn at my school. I've had to grade their papers as part of my aiding elective (not for their class, but my teacher said they needed help with stuff) and it's really... bad. These kids have no idea what's going on and they really have no motivation to try. I seriously graded 5 papers where the kids cheated off each other to spell the word chair - and got it wrong. This is no joke.
Anyway, it may be arrogant of me to want them to learn how to speak English beforehand, but... meh. It's just my opinion.
Well if our president can't even speak english, his native languae, properly. What chance do the immigrants have.
Yes because that depends on what the meaning of the word "is" is...
Oops, wait wrong president...
Dang, when is the last time we've had a president who actually knows what he's doing?
On second thought, no one answer that, let's just stick to the thread issue.
"I reject your reality and substitute my own."
Presidents always screw things up...
Like our president, Fox. He once said that mexicans did the jobs (in USA) not even black people wanted to do...
Talk about moronic speeches...
Haha, I happened to catch Carlos Mencia last night and he said the same thing... I don't know if that's ironic or what though... >.<
"I reject your reality and substitute my own."
Bush speaks English better than 99.99999% of immigrants, but he's not very articulate or a good public speaker.Originally Posted by Lefty
You try reading off a paper with cameras rolling and hundreds to thousands of people surrounding you on a daily basis. You're bound to screw up more than once, and he's certainly not the first president to do so.
And the whole 'noo-clear' thing is either a speech impediment or his accent.
If anything, you should be bashing Bush for his moronic presidency and pointless war -- not the flaws he has in his speeches.
Sorry... went off track a bit there.
Well it does have to deal with part of his accent and all the substance abuse has probably left his brain a little swiss chessed, but some of the shit that has come out of his mouth is just plain idiotic. Even some new english speakers are shaking thier heads.
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