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In a customer service situation, it's RUDE to speak a language other than the language used by the customer to initiate the conversation. Personally, I freakin' hate it.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997I guess I'd have to have been there. It may have just been that the guy may have been wanting to exclude you from the conversation because they were discussing business matters. I've been to stores many a times where after talking to an employee, they step away to discuss the business matters in private. It could have been something similar here. *shrug*
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viaducting wrote:
How can it not be threatening to someone
Because it's not a threat to quote the caliber of a bullet.
viaducting wrote:
How can the other person tell whether or not you are carrying?
It would be pretty obvious.
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it's not a threat to quote the caliber of a bullet.
Suppose someone said to you: "Please move your truck. I fire .45ACP." or "Don't look at my wife. I fire .45ACP." All they are doing is quoting the calibre of a bullet, but I don't see how you could consider it anything but a threat.
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I guess that's the american way texan way ... :-D Have a 5!
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So, you and your wife don't know anything except English (actually broken English, aka American) and were pissed off because someone else was talking in a different language. What's funny is that you thought what your wife said was funny. :laugh:
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I guess that's the american way texan way ... :-D Have a 5!
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Wow, who'd have figured this: The uni-hole is ass-voting again! I do feel flattered by so much attentiveness. Cheers!
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We live in Texas. In the United States. One of the few countries that is not brave enough to specify a "national language". This weekend, we were in a furniture store being helped by a Hispanic guy. In the middle of our visit, one of the warehouse monkies came up to him and started a conversation about some furniture that we were inquiring about. The conversation was entirely in Spanish. This really irritated my wife, so she interrupted them. "My husband and I speak English and .45ACP. How would you like to proceed?" Looks like I'll be getting a new t-shirt soon. :)
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997I think Samuel L Jackson covered this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_mDTLphIVY&feature=related[^] (Not KSS)
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I'm looking forward to it; primarily because it should wipe that smug grin off Steve Jobs face.
CPallini wrote:
You cannot argue with agile people so just take the extreme approach and shoot him. :Smile:
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Tom Deketelaere wrote:
There really is only one country where we learn 3-4 languages
Don't forget Switzerland.
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Well maybe you need to learn another language... you know, most people in Europe speak 3-4 languages... And yes, I am hispanic and speak both English and Spanish (and I'm also from Texas). Edit: I also speak bad German, understand Italian (minus heavy accents) and Portuguese.
I speak about a dozen different languages, though English is the only non-machine language. And I also speak .45ACP.
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Tom Deketelaere wrote:
The french refuse to speak anything but French.
They might refuse to speak it. Doesn't mean they can't.
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Trust me they can't. Well have to admit the the younger generation at least tries a bit now but it's barely understandable.
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So would specifying a national language make it illegal for two people to speak a different language in front of someone who doesn't speak that language? I thought you Texans claimed to be all about freedom.
It's not illegal to speak any language you want in front of someone in this country, just rude.
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Yep and it's one place I'll be avoiding on my world tour.
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Metro RSSActually I'd like to visit Texas as a cousin of mine lives there. Last time I've seen him was way back in '79 when my aunt and uncle lived in Upland,CA.
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Tom Deketelaere wrote:
There really is only one country where we learn 3-4 languages
Don't forget Switzerland.
We are talking about 3-4 languages, they speak 3 in Switzerland? Don't really know been a long long time since I went there so my memory is a bit fuzzy.
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Slacker007 wrote:
I can care less if someone wants to speak their mother language
So it does bother you then? Personally I couldn't care less.
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Personally I couldn't care less.
I stand corrected. I have made that mistake before here. You think I would have learned my lesson by now. :laugh:
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There was no threat. She wasn't carrying and don't try to tell me that quoting a bullet size to someone who's probably ignorant of its meaning is a threat. Especially when it's out-of-context and you're not carrying.
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There was no threat. She wasn't carrying and don't try to tell me that quoting a bullet size to someone who's probably ignorant of its meaning is a threat. Especially when it's out-of-context and you're not carrying.
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You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering” - Wernher von BraunI would think it would be ignorant to claim that it wasn't threatening to say such. She may have had absolutely no intention of using her weapon (if it was on her or not). She is still threatening to use it in place of speaking to them. That's like saying someone who walks into a bank with a toy gun that looks real shouldn't be arrested for attempting to rob a bank because it was a toy.
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Yes sir, it's the same as inhabitants but spelled in the european way of english. So now we have English english, US english, Canadian english and European english (not counting the island). ;)
Marcus_2 wrote:
it's the same as inhabitants but spelled in the european way of english.
Funny, when I Google ingabitants it only shows me inhabitants. Since Google is always right, then you must be wrong. :-D
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Marcus_2 wrote:
it's the same as inhabitants but spelled in the european way of english.
Funny, when I Google ingabitants it only shows me inhabitants. Since Google is always right, then you must be wrong. :-D
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We live in Texas. In the United States. One of the few countries that is not brave enough to specify a "national language". This weekend, we were in a furniture store being helped by a Hispanic guy. In the middle of our visit, one of the warehouse monkies came up to him and started a conversation about some furniture that we were inquiring about. The conversation was entirely in Spanish. This really irritated my wife, so she interrupted them. "My husband and I speak English and .45ACP. How would you like to proceed?" Looks like I'll be getting a new t-shirt soon. :)
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997That's really pretty sad. I'm also from Texas, but I speak English and Spanish fluently, having taught engineering courses and written engineering reports in Spanish and made a living as a translator. My mother was German and I was at one time fluent in German. I learned conversational Khmer and Vietnamese and Laotian, but now only remember some phrases and the names of the characters/letters. When I went to Indonesia, after 2 weeks, I taught the last day of class in Bahasa Indonesian. I also worked for a French company and learned to read that pretty well, although I never practiced enough to get the pronunciation correct. Doesn't it bother you to be so limited as to speak only 1 language?
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Alright, that's it. I'm from Ireland, where these days it is unusual to be able to acquire almost any item of household goods, furniture or food without having to negotiate a fairly thick Eastern European or Far Eastern accent due to the hordes of foreign students paying their way through our colleges with their labours. Certainly many people may find it trying, and the less well-off/educated denizens of the Emerald Isle aften take out their frustrations on them, particularly when drunk and coked out of it at 4 in the morning on their re-mortgaging profits. But the idea that two Hispanic shop attendants who are trying to help you and your redneck wife receive that kind of treatment for speaking in a language more familiar to them when speaking amongst themselves is abusive and disgusting, if not outright racist. Dressed up as humour, it's even more nauseating. The fact that this was presumably during office hours, and presumably without the malign influence of alcohol, means that there is even less excuse. If you write code abroad as part of a team of foreign contractors, do you get laughed at for discussing things with your associate in English? No probably not because you spend all of your time knee deep in Raytheons or whatever, or building moats and congratulating yourself on living in the land of the free. You get away with this puerile line of gun-totin', right-on horseshit on these forums because you're a good coder and generally funny, but on this occasion It's anything but. You, sir, are a disgrace.
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I get 5280 hits for ingabitants, the first of which is "Who were the first ingabitants of Florida". Apparently it was either Robert Martínez or Ponce de León.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
Funny again. I get nothing. Absolutely zero. It must be a regional setting of some sort. All I see are listings for "inhabitants". Actually the native Americans were the first inhabitants of Florida. I of course could be wrong but I don't think it was Ponce de Leon or Mr. Martinez.
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