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Bruce
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God bless all the immigrants, legal or not, who get a job, earn money and pay taxes, but why on Earth do the burger joints put people with incomprehensible accents on the squawk boxes? I have a devil of a time communicating with some of them.
Have them flip burgers, even take orders at the front where you have a fighting chance of lip-reading them, but please Jack and Mac, don't put them on the squawk box.
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Yoda117
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I think I can mirror Bruce's sentiments when, on a recent trip to DC, I had to speak in Spanish in order to place an order at the local Subway.
Despite being in an English-speaking country, English-speaking city, and English-speaking neighborhood (hotel district), the girl spoke no English.
*was boggled by the experience*
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Diane Maggipinto
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English is the official language of Utah, thanks to the legislature.
63-13-1.5. Official state language.
(1) English is declared to be the official language of Utah.
Whodathunkit? You ought to hear some of the accents here! And they're Anglos.
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| Diane Maggipinto wrote: | English is the official language of Utah, thanks to the legislature.
63-13-1.5. Official state language.
(1) English is declared to be the official language of Utah.
Whodathunkit? You ought to hear some of the accents here! And they're Anglos. |
Having spent my first 30 years in Utah, I concur Diane.  |
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DaveChristi
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| Diane Maggipinto wrote: | | Whodathunkit? You ought to hear some of the accents here! And they're Anglos. |
Billy: "Me un LaGrand are goin' to th' Mou'un View Stake Cenner ta' do su'um!"
YAY! Billy's a Utard!
I was raised there and still cringe when my sister says "su'um" instead of "something"... I mean holy heck! It's like they're too lazy to say "sumpthin'"
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| DaveChristi wrote: | | Diane Maggipinto wrote: | | Whodathunkit? You ought to hear some of the accents here! And they're Anglos. |
Billy: "Me un LaGrand are goin' to th' Mou'un View Stake Cenner ta' do su'um!"
YAY! Billy's a Utard!
I was raised there and still cringe when my sister says "su'um" instead of "something"... I mean holy heck! It's like they're too lazy to say "sumpthin'" |
OMG Dave! I thought I was the only one who used the term Utard. Apparently the natives don't take too kindly to it. Who knew? |
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Diane Maggipinto
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OMG Dave that is too dead-freakin'-on! Fer cute fersher oh my heck. Really, oh my scary!
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| richgates wrote: | | OMG Dave! I thought I was the only one who used the term Utard. Apparently the natives don't take too kindly to it. Who knew? |
| Diane Maggipinto wrote: | | OMG Dave that is too dead-freakin'-on! Fer cute fersher oh my heck. Really, oh my scary! |
Maybe I should change my VO-BB name to "OMG Dave"
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Diane Maggipinto
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You could just create another web site and add it to your stable.
www.omgdave.edu
Plus, given this latest back and forth, we ought not use the lord dog's name in vain.
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Lizden
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Hey Y'All!
This is a conversation that's really interesting to me on a personal note
My dad spoke 8 languages fluently...like since the age of 5 (English, French, Hungarian, Russian, Spanish, Italian, Slovak & German...if anyone's interested!)
He was raised in central Europe & always said that the farther EAST you were, you had to learn all the languages to the WEST of you! (Yeah, geographically Russian was EAST of my dad, but he met my mom when he was 15 and learned it quickly 
Anyway...my folks came here in 1954...(I'm a first generation 'merican!) and raised a family here....we always spoke French at home,,,,long story...and Russian when my mom's mom came over for visits....so I grew up in a VERY multi lingual environment, which my parents nurtured and even insisted upon (us kids weren't allowed to speak English at home, because we had it all around us outside the home)
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My father was always amazed that the US never actually enacted English as it's official language. He felt that. although it was important and a gift to give a child another language, that in order to have a consistency in government & societal interaction, ONE language really should rule. And that if you came to a country to live and work....learn the language.
I'm sure Maiku can speak to this being in Japan, but I always felt that if somehow I ended up in China (or Japan) I would make every effort to learn the language, not only for my own ease of getting around & being understood, but for the respect of the county I'm living in....
Of course, then you have the American Tourists that travel the globe and EXPECT everyone to speak English!....but that's another conversation entirely!
So...those are my .02!
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I agree with the sentiments of the board. The management should insist that all employees that use the intercom, be able to speak clearly and be understood. But in some way, I think the problem owes a small part to the mechanics instead of the human element. It's 2007... why do squawk boxes have to sound like 1963?
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asnively
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LaGrand! 
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louzucaro
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| Lizden wrote: | | I always felt that if somehow I ended up in China (or Japan) I would make every effort to learn the language |
After my first trip to Hong Kong / China, I fell in love with the place. When I got back, I registered for classes to take Mandarin.
Now, there were several problems with this...Mandarin isn't really spoken in Hong Kong, which is where I'd primarily be spending time on return trips (Cantonese is the lingua populi in HK). Also...Mandarin? No alphabet. Doh! No spelling. Very little grammar. Just 6000+ characters to remember (a bargain, considering that "traditional Chinese" was like 60000+ chars). The language is based on inflection, not just pronunciation.
So combine all that with meeting just once a week for 2 hours and nobody to practice with in between and it made for a very difficult language to learn.
Now, I'm sure I could have done better if I did have somebody to practice with and given more time, as I'm sure most people with the desire to do so would, but I'll tell ya this...it ain't like taking Spanish!
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Lizden
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| louzucaro wrote: | | Now, I'm sure I could have done better if I did have somebody to practice with and given more time, as I'm sure most people with the desire to do so would, but I'll tell ya this...it ain't like taking Spanish! |
Ahhhhh.....but...what one does for LOVE! 
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