Iowa Aviation Weather...en Espanol

In article m,
C J Campbell wrote:

How many citizens can only read/write Spanish?

I am disturbed by the apparent assumption that any Spanish speaker must be an
illegal alien.

Are you suggesting that the question implied any assumptions?

The vast majority of Spanish speakers in the US are citizens.
A lot of them are descended from people who were living in what is now the
USA long before the Mayflower ever got here. It really is ignorant not to
know that.

Spanish, like English, is an imported language.

I'm, in part, a descendent of people living here way before Spanish or English
arrived.

--
Bob Noel
Looking for a sig the
lawyers will hate

Bob Noel writes:

How many citizens can only read/write Spanish?

Very few of those who cannot read and write English are able to read and write
Spanish.

--
Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.

Jay Honeck wrote:
Does anyone else find it disturbing that the National Weather Service
in the United States is paying out taxpayer money to a government
employee to create a foreign-language web page?

Tla. Ayv a-da-nv-te-s-gv na-s-gi o-s-dv.

Matt Roberds

(The above is an automated translation into a language I am not very
familiar with and may contain errors.)

Jay Honeck wrote:
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/forecast/Map...=121&map.y=125

(or http://tinyurl.com/39s8j5 if that URL wraps...)

Does anyone else find it disturbing that the National Weather Service
in the United States is paying out taxpayer money to a government
employee to create a foreign-language web page?


No, not at all.

- John Ousterhout

On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 13:40:36 -0800, Jay Honeck wrote
(in article .com):


http://www.crh.noaa.gov/forecast/Map...=121&map.y=125


(or http://tinyurl.com/39s8j5 if that URL wraps...)

Does anyone else find it disturbing that the National Weather Service
in the United States is paying out taxpayer money to a government
employee to create a foreign-language web page?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"


Nakakapagbabagabag.

--
Waddling Eagle
World Famous Flight Instructor

On Feb 12, 3:40 pm, "Jay Honeck" wrote:
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/forecast/Map...DVN&map.x=121&...

(orhttp://tinyurl.com/39s8j5if that URL wraps...)

Does anyone else find it disturbing that the National Weather Service
in the United States is paying out taxpayer money to a government
employee to create a foreign-language web page?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Jay
por supuesto pero yo pienso mas gente en estado unidos falta educacion
como otro pieses y lenguas. Esta claro que mas latinos viene aqui y el
mundo es cambiando. No cambio o adjustamente por el individual, el es
muerte en la agua.
Times are changing my friend. I am one of the most adamant in the USA
regarding the use of english as our language but I fear I am ****ing
in the wind. In most of the foreign countries I worked in, I had to
learn at least a modicum of the language to survive. It is indeed
unfortunate that our education system, and by extension, most
Americans, never learn a foreign language well enough to carry on a
simple conversation in anything but english.
To that end, I am making an effort to teach my new son several
languages while he is still in the early stages of speech development
so he'll be able to function in a multi-lingual world.
You should have seen me raising hell in a post office in CA where all
the signs were in spanish. I made enough of a stink that all the signs
were duplicated in english by the end of the week.
I guess it beats being in arabic......or Finnish? ggg
Ol Shy & Bashful

Ol Shy & Bashful writes:

Times are changing my friend. I am one of the most adamant in the USA
regarding the use of english as our language but I fear I am ****ing
in the wind. In most of the foreign countries I worked in, I had to
learn at least a modicum of the language to survive. It is indeed
unfortunate that our education system, and by extension, most
Americans, never learn a foreign language well enough to carry on a
simple conversation in anything but english.

It's much more unfortunate that immigrants and natives never bother to learn
English to begin with, and then the state panders to them to maintain them as
parasites on society, instead of useful contributors.

I guess it beats being in arabic......or Finnish? ggg

How many foreign languages are public documents printed in in Saudi Arabia?

--
Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.

Ol Shy & Bashful wrote:

On Feb 12, 3:40 pm, "Jay Honeck" wrote:

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/forecast/Map...DVN&map.x=121&...

(orhttp://tinyurl.com/39s8j5if that URL wraps...)

Does anyone else find it disturbing that the National Weather Service
in the United States is paying out taxpayer money to a government
employee to create a foreign-language web page?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"


Jay
por supuesto pero yo pienso mas gente en estado unidos falta educacion
como otro pieses y lenguas. Esta claro que mas latinos viene aqui y el
mundo es cambiando. No cambio o adjustamente por el individual, el es
muerte en la agua.
Times are changing my friend. I am one of the most adamant in the USA
regarding the use of english as our language but I fear I am ****ing
in the wind. In most of the foreign countries I worked in, I had to
learn at least a modicum of the language to survive. It is indeed
unfortunate that our education system, and by extension, most
Americans, never learn a foreign language well enough to carry on a
simple conversation in anything but english.
To that end, I am making an effort to teach my new son several
languages while he is still in the early stages of speech development
so he'll be able to function in a multi-lingual world.
You should have seen me raising hell in a post office in CA where all
the signs were in spanish. I made enough of a stink that all the signs
were duplicated in english by the end of the week.
I guess it beats being in arabic......or Finnish? ggg

Just wait. Pretty soon our signs will look like the instruction sheets
for most appliances. Three pages of instructions that take 30 pages to
print in 10 different languages.

Matt

Three pages of instructions that take 30 pages to print in 10 different languages.

We already have that. No wait - that's legalese - the official language
of Congress.

Jose
--
Humans are pack animals. Above all things, they have a deep need to
follow something, be it a leader, a creed, or a mob. Whosoever fully
understands this holds the world in his hands.
for Email, make the obvious change in the address.

No.

The reason may be my mono-lingual abilities within a multi-lingual family.

The US is in no danger of losing english as the primary language. We'll
all look up one day and forget what all the concern was about.

Jay Honeck wrote:
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/forecast/Map...=121&map.y=125

(or http://tinyurl.com/39s8j5 if that URL wraps...)

Does anyone else find it disturbing that the National Weather Service
in the United States is paying out taxpayer money to a government
employee to create a foreign-language web page?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"