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Old 05-13-2011, 06:53 PM
 
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I feel that business is one of the areas where being bilingual should be a given, you can speak with family or friends in whatever language you want, but at least try to speak the language of the country you're opening a business in or representing a company in. Just common courtesy.
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Old 05-13-2011, 07:21 PM
 
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You can tell the ink on that door sign is different. The 50.00 is darker, the zeros are from a different writer. The 50.00 was forged, you can see the old ink erased if you look closely I bet you Mr Cixel had something to do with the change. Also the spanish is wrong, someone used a dictionary to write that crap or google translate.
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Old 05-13-2011, 07:30 PM
 
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OMG. today i saw a guy flipping between english and spanish every couple of words. some sentences in english, some in spanish. wtf dude. seriously. PLEASE pick one.

I flip between English and other languages all the time, how does it bother you? I will mix four languages sometimes.
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Old 05-13-2011, 07:31 PM
 
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I flip between English and other languages all the time, how does it bother you? I will mix four languages sometimes.
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Old 05-13-2011, 07:34 PM
 
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Spanish and Spanglish are the official languages of Miami. Some people just cannot cope with another language. These people have no place in the modern, bilingual metropolis of Miami. Plenty of other towns for whitey to choose.
You realize there are many people of every race and color who cannot speak Spanish, not just whitey. I won't even mention the large number of Hispanics who do not speak Spanish.
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Old 05-13-2011, 07:34 PM
 
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Sometimes I mix English, Japanese, Spanish, Italian, and German all in one. And I'm only fluent in 2
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Old 05-13-2011, 07:36 PM
 
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Thorax = The reason we hate Miami
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Old 05-13-2011, 07:40 PM
 
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Why not? It isn't racism, as cixcell has commented in earlier posts, but is is most certainly discrimination against people who cannot read/speak Spanish.

But you would have to be a total tool not to be able to figure it out; a person does not need to be a speaker to understand the concept of the translation when compared side by side. Put that sign in any language and I will make a pretty darn good guess that it means the same in English, and they are charging me different. It is like all those tiresome arguments about needing to know English to drive, as if someone does not know what "stop" is or the big red sign, no matter what language they speak.
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Old 05-13-2011, 07:42 PM
 
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Plus, you see the 50 over the 5 in one, and 20 over the 5 in the other... that should at least give you some clues.
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Old 05-13-2011, 07:46 PM
 
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Sometimes I mix English, Japanese, Spanish, Italian, and German all in one. And I'm only fluent in 2
You do not have to be fluent. Have a conversation in two languages, say numbers in a third, and "bye, hello, thank you, cheers, etc" in a fourth.

Privet, kak dela? It is a great day for me, I made das rupee aadj, tashakur for the bier!
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