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Wow should be require all Americans who travel and live overseas to completely stop speaking English and only converse in the language of the country while abroad?
I agree, but why this comment........."Do you want the Russians over here telling you what to do? Do you want the Nazis telling you what to do?"
I find this very strange coming from an American woman Does CA have a Nazi problem?
Clearly this old racist bruja bat has dementia and now has no filters to hide her racism. Nazis, Castro, Russians? WTF. She has reverted to her (in)glorious past. The young man was right, she clearly IS going to die soon. Not soon enough. (Perhaps he was telling her that in hopes that she would consider how ungodly her rant was. You're going to die soon (because you are old) - why would you say such regrettable things?) Hope if she is "Christian", or whatever other religion, that she finds that her "God" speaks Spanish and every other language EXCEPT English. Oh, wait, with vitriolic hatred such as that she wouldn't be meeting her "God" would she? LOL.
Wow should be require all Americans who travel and live overseas to completely stop speaking English and only converse in the language of the country while abroad?
No, there is a time and place for everything including how loud one speaks a language around others.
The only way it's rude to speak a foreign language when out in public is if one amongst your group does NOT speak that language as well. Otherwise it's rude to impose yourself in someone else's business and conversation when you're not one of their party.
I'm a born and raised American, parents immigrated to the U.S. when they were young. We all speak English. But if we go out to dinner then, yeah, we will speak our language if we so choose to. Better to avoid nosy eavesdroppers. For someone at the next table to butt in and tell us to speak English because we're in America....? She's getting a plate to the face and her ass chewed out in two or three languages - including English. Classless swine.
Personally I think it's rude to speak a foreign language in public. It's just how I was raised. I was also raised in a polyglot home where even today we switch between several languages when we're all together at my parents' house.
If I did that in public growing up, I'd get a sharp rap on the knuckles or a pinch on my upper arm.
To this day I cringe when I hear foreign languages in public...again, upbringing. I don't say anything about it though...unless it's staff saying things in a foreign language that they would get in trouble for saying in English. I've complained to management about waitstaff and busboys making vulgar remarks in Spanish.
They assumed I couldn't understand them. They were wrong.
I know exactly how you feel. It kind of burns me when I go to Tahlequah and the old folks are at the town square speaking Cherokee. This is America, if they want to speak Cherokee in public let him go back where they came from!
Karma being what it is "Miss. Anne" will likely end her days in a care home staffed by nurses, aides and others who speak Patois, Tagalog, Spanish, Niger-Congo and a few other languages. They will speak among themselves in *their* language as they go about their work largely ignoring the woman and or her rants about English speaking.
Being multilingual shows a higher level of intellect.
I bet this hag cannot speak anything else and even her English must be atrocious.
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Does CA have a Nazi problem?