Folks who have a problem with people speaking Mandarin, or Spanish, or Russian, or whatever here in the Good Ol’ U S of A, should get the fuck out of the country until they can learn what freedom of speech means.
Fucking losers.
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Yes, I know all that. I’m wondering what they think would happen now, in 2018, if English were to become the official language of the US.
GoFundMe set up (for each woman) in 3…2…1…
I think this about mind reading. that would be the most miserable superpower ever. thank god we can’t hear each other’s thoughts or know the awful unchecked shit that everyone around us is thinking.
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Well clearly, if they’re speakin’ a furrin’ language around you, it’s because yer obviously the topic of their conversation and being insulted…
Maybe not in this case. Maybe this lady is just so bent because you know, brown people, speaking a brown people tongue.
I think as punishment, she should be forced to learn and speak Dine (sorry, don’t know how to put accents). Everywhere. Always.
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Also Skankist
We stopped hanging them yonks ago
Your remark reminded me of a rather good short film that is somewhat pertinent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqYtG9BNhfM
Well, you’re definitely not going to get that level of linguistic nuance across to this lady! All she’d hear is Latin (wypipo), French (wypipo), Germanic (wypipo).
This is one of the things I love about living in the Hudson Valley. Even though it’s very rural here, we are so impacted by NYC that there is a crazy blend of languages heard here. I regularly hear three to four distinct Spanish dialects. I think about my own upbringing in Missouri and the positive impact growing up here is having on my kids. My youngest is going to be bilingual and will speak a Spanish dialect that is hardest for me to understand (Puerto Rican). What a country!
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A University town… yeah, I might hear four or five different languages by the end of my first coffee and sometimes none of them are either of the two official languages.
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Here in NoVaMdDC it’s full on United Nations everyday. Every venture outside a new language presents itself.
It’s beautiful.
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I remember one description suggesting that English is German with French vocabulary.
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As a native English speaker, I must say that everything I ever learned about English grammar, I learned in French class.
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Here’s the demographics in our ZIP code (we’re in P.G. County). It is extremely unusual here to see (for example) a pickup with a Trump flag mounted in the bed (and yet, I’ve seen it, once. Something that would be commonplace on, say, the Eastern Shore).
My wife’s Ethiopian but now and then someone will ask her a question in Spanish. They seem rather surprised to find that she doesn’t speak nor understand it.
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It’s worth pointing out that 1st amendment Freedom of Speech only applies to government prosecution. You cannot be arrested or prosecuted for protected speech (although this has been violated so many times it could be considered null and void.) You are in no way protected from the consequences of your speech. For these two women, the consequences should be absolutely nothing at all. For the racist harridan, her consequences may be considerably more severe than she had any reckoning for. Social opprobrium is not a violation of 1st amendment rights, much as many many right wingers feel it should be!
It’s worth pointing out that the people railing against folks speaking non-English languages in the USA are, in my experience, all too vociferous about making English language fluency a requisite for citizenship, forbidding non-English language communication by the government, etc.
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Also seem to be people who wouldn’t pass an English proficiency exam. Cognitive dissonance or Dunning-Kruger?
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No argument. That is shitty and legally questionable. Just not a 1st amendment argument. A little “grammar Nazi” kinda thing of me, I know, but if you give the shitheads a chance to shoot you down on a technicality, they tend to think that nullifies any other point you were making.
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