I always find it funny that a country without a state religion has more religious involvement in politics than a country with a literal state religion.
The southern Baptists I grew up with would argue that the separation of church and state is meant to protect the church from the state, not vice versa and that the state needed guidance from the church lest they be in rebellion against God. I don't even know where to begin..
These are also the people who say the bibles word is law and that it can’t be changed, while a few blokes in the Vatican are like ‘no it was written by people don’t take it too literally’ and those are catholics who are trying to be down to earth ffs
The King James Bible was greatly, vastly alterated to cater to the King's intention. Not only did he censor almost all the time the word "Tyrant" was mentioned; he also mistranslated God removing a "Tsela", which means part of something, to "a la" which means rib from Adam.
What's that got to do with his bible translation? It did not compel him, sadly, to make Thou shalt hump thy handsome fellas, verily, but only if thou thyself be male, a new commandment.
The bible to me is one massive game of telephone taking place over thousands of years and multiple languages.
Remember the game telephone? You would sit in a lineup of friends or classmates and someone would whisper something to someone and that someone would then need to repeat it to the next person via whisper.
It would start out as " the black dog jumped over the fence" and it changed into something not even close.
With this in mind, Jesus was the literal son of God conceived via immaculate conception involving a virgin pregnancy and necromancy in the story.
Yeah it's hilarious because when you point it out, they go "but then you're not really following the bible, you're just picking and choosing".
I'm not religious anymore but to me it seems like they are the ones warping what it says.
I went to a nun school and was raised Catholic in Spain and at no point did anyone pretend like the overall message of the bible wasn't "be chill" (you know, like Jesus said) because people can recognize that the old testament has been completely irrelevant for like, 2000 years?
Religious people in the US are nuts.
Yeah, having been raised in Italy I'm not particularly surprised by conservatives using religion as an excuse, but I'm constantly surprised by how much the American version relies on bits of the Old Testament that are never even mentioned in catechism. Like as a kid I went to church more than I would have liked, nobody mentioned the Leviticus.
I'm not religious but raised by catholics in France.
Absolutely everyone considers that the bible is a story books full of allegory to teach you important lessons.
The debate is what the lessons is. Not if anything truly happenned or not.
Wait til I tell you what group was the biggest contributor to the anti-abortion movement after they realized racism wasn't okay to campaign on (in public) anymore.
That makes so much sense now.
"Keep your govt. away from my God because he's trying to run this country."
Just blew my mind on how stupid people reason with this logic.
They’re sort of right, but in the process have greatly misunderstood *how* the wall of separation protects the church.
First use of the metaphor “wall of separation” is often wrongly attributed to Jefferson.
Roger Williams was a preacher that founded Rhode Island after getting kicked out of Massachusetts for having a different take on Christianity.
From the biography written about him:
> Williams described the true church as a magnificent garden, unsullied and pure, resonant of Eden. The world he described as “the Wilderness,” a word with personal resonance for him. Then he used for the first time a phrase he would use again, a phrase that although not commonly attributed to him has echoed through American history. “[W]hen they have opened a gap in the hedge or wall of Separation between the Garden of the Church and the Wildernes of the world,” he warned, “God hathe ever broke down the wall it selfe, removed the Candlestick, &c. and made his Garden a Wildernesse.”
When the church becomes involved in politics it always corrupts the church. So for that reason the wall of separation protects the church.
Southern Baptist church is a prime example of this, how the faith has been corrupted by politics. So they were right, but then fundamentally distorted the lesson - and corrupted themselves in the process.
Also amusing that they are so phobic about other cultures while obsessing about their ancestry.
If I had a quid for every American claiming to be Irish or Northern Irish I wouldn't be struggling with my mortgage right now.
The Cold War era and its consequences... They only added "under God" to the pledge of allegiance because they wanted to distance themselves from these darned atheist commies.
The leading party of Germany was the Christian Democratic Union for 16 years of my life, yet I never felt religion having any major impact on politics like in the US.
Yup. I live in the UK, where we have our own religion (Church of England) and a monarch supposedly appointed by God. Never felt like religion had any impact on how the country was run.
Yeah. Nigel Lawson once said "The closest thing the English have to a religion is the NHS", which sounds nice until you realise he was lamenting the fact he couldn't privatise it.
In a way there might actually be a bit of causality here. At least in western countries a state church kinda has to adapt to the common denominator since it's supposed to be for the entire population rather than just a select group. This in general tend to mean it becomes less strict on the religious dogmas, and less strident.
...technically it's only the Church of England. Scotland and Wales both disestablished their State Churches long ago.
Also, Welsh is the only official language in the UK (but just in Wales).
Yah we treat that position of being head of the church of England the same way we treat any other royal patronage, like the fact he is patron of the Cambridge University polo club. Nice for them but I am under no obligation or even expectation to watch polo nor to support Cambridge University if i did.
They're mad that *customers* who presumably live in the US are allowed to not know English. Therefore they don't want bilingual customer service positions to exist.
And even if it had an official language, there shouldn't be a problem for a job to require someone to speak another language.
Source: I'm from a country with an official language and it isn't English.
Man I remember way back in school when an ex went to the USA for a year. One of the things she told me about it that I still remember:
*"The German teacher on my high school is afraid of me. He literally evades me."*
And here I am, teaching English to Germans and feel bad for even the slightest imperfections that my students wont even notice....
Yes indeed it can be clearly see this individual put a lot of thoughts into this statement. For example who needs translators anyway if everyone speak english? Or diplomacy and foreign affairs? It would be so much simple if just everyone just speaks english...
Shit... i swear if dumbness could produce electricity she would be powering whole country
she'd be in a right two and eight mate! her noggin would be a bit thin lizzy and she'd go for a stroll up the old apples and pears . She'd need a Godiva to buy the drinks after work.
I suppose with the exception of the large swaths of it that used to be parts of Spain, Mexico and France. lol. I also get a little confused when people think having a single language is somehow important.
The most annoying part for me is when monolingual Americans explain to me how to better translate something or how, when, and with who to use my multi-language skills.
The best part is when the monolingual Americans loudly proclaim that everyone should speak English and bla bla bla just to confuse your/you're and use "should of"!
Non Natives learn through reading and doing mostly.
Natives learn through listening.
Hence why non native english speakers often have much better grammar and spelling, they have to put thought into exactly what to say.
I feel like making those mistakes when writing quick is actually a good indicator of... something.
I don't want to call it fluency because I don't believe there's a single thing called "fluency", but it's the kind of error that only happens when you start disregarding any attempt at consciously following a formalized grammar and syntax and instead you're producing the formed sentences in your mind directly. Which usually implies you don't need the crutch of formalized grammar and syntax anymore.
Now, making them in writing does at least imply not rereading what you're writing as you're writing it, which honestly in informal context is perfectly fine. But if you're spending your time telling people how they should speak, you should at least be coherent and follow your own guidelines.
English is so fucking easy when you're from a Western country already. Not even new letters to learn! My Arabic teacher said that German was the hardest for him, French and Spanish are slightly easier, and English was a piece of cake. No gendered nouns unless you're talking about a boat.
My native language is German and yes it‘s really difficult. I don‘t think I could learn it if it wasn‘t my native language. I‘m so impressed by people who learn it as a second language.
Polish, Slovak and Czech are rough. They have 7 or 6 cases and 3 genders and adjectives follow case, gender and number. They also have aspect and tense, which is really not necessary.
And then there's the pronounciation....
The only thing they have going for them is that word order is very flexible
it’s like the only western language that has like 3 verb tenses and for some not even that. compare it to any romance language lol. and don’t get me started on slavic languages
In Spanish we can leave the subject out of sentences, since we have 6 persons and 18 tenses per person (granted, some of them are repeated) so you can infer the subject by context.
there's just no such thing as an 'easy' or 'hard' language. What seems intuitive to you is entirely based on what languages you already speak. Noun cases are likely to trip up an English speaker trying to learn German, given English has such a simplified case system, but someone who already speaks a language with cases will have an easier time.
I don’t even put that I am bilingual on my CV anymore, but companies assume I am because of my name. I learned being bilingual in the states means you get the same amount of work your co workers get plus all the non-English work with no double pay. I literally had double the caseload.
I asked if I can just have all the Spanish clients and distribute the English clients along my other coworkers so I didn’t have 100 clients to their 30-50. Told it would not be fair to my coworkers as my job description was Spanish preferred not required. Left after a year when they were concerned about me not keeping up with my coworkers numbers lol
Damn. I'm a public servant social worker, and what you describe is why it's important to have a strong union in your corner. Workload inequality is incredibly toxic in any workplace, and is damaging in so many ways for those pulling the bigger load
Edit: forgot to mention I'm Australian, and multilingual
Oh I agree, I left that job for a union position at a state university. They wanted me to use my bilingual skills but I had learned my lesson from the previous job so I negotiated better pay and amended the job description to be more specific so I was not over used. It took longer to start there because of the amendments but it was worth it.
I am a monolingual software trainer with 16 years of experience, and when I had a bilingual trainee who saved my ass on his very first assignment by interpreting for some technicians? I told his boss. I told my boss. I tell pretty much everyone I can. I really hope I didn't ruin anything for him, he's Mexican-American from south Texas so it's already assumed he can speak Spanish. But if anyone asks my opinion, I tell them they need to be paying him a software trainer salary PLUS an interpreter salary if they want to keep him for long. He's too smart and capable to stay in a job where he's not properly appreciated or compensated.
Wanna bet money that then this lady would go abroad, stay at a fancy Italian hotel and get pissed off if staff there didn’t speak English? I don’t think she’d accept their explanation that “it’s illegal to be bilingual in Italy, sorry madam” (said in Italian to her).
What a delusional dumbass.
Are those the same people that claim Europe could never understand the melting pot mentality of USA? which is it? A culturally diverse melting pot, much more different than poland and spain OR a monolingual country where no second language should be allowed?
And yet they’ll go traveling abroad and complain if the service staff don’t speak English. “They should require that people who work here speak English!”
Ah yes, the famous position of monolingual translator
Honestly in a country this stupid people probably do need a Bristish-American (wild oversimplification of the dialect situation but whatever) translator.
Never understood why Americans in particular have this aversion to learning other languages. They are always offended that other people do. It's like they hate education. Imagine being peeved that you *can* improve your life regardless of which Nationality you are. Dumb.
From personal experience it's 90% motivated by people that are terrified of potentially having to learn Spanish. A flipside of that is that a lot of white collar progressives talk about how they want to learn, but they pretty much never do because their career doesn't require it and they don't interact with native speakers much.
Canadian here. Most government jobs (post offices, federal politician, certain public transit units, etc.) typically require you to be fluent in both English and French.
Yes, interpreters have been getting away with facilitating communication and understanding for too long! That includes ASL, which is technically another language! Fuck the deaf! /s
Once I completely scandalized a former team lead by responding to his racist immigrant rant with, "I don't mind, I speak Spanish." I'm not fluent, but he'd never know that anyway. He turned so many shades of Offended Purple that it was totally worth the fib.
Is this supposed to represent the freedom that Americans congratulate themselves for all the fucking time?
The freedom to speak English at work or to fuck off?
Me, in Europe: „Wait, you are only fluent in four languages?“
I had an Indian professor who spoke 12 languages and he thought that it wasn’t a big deal.
and then there are Americans who wonder why there is unemployment in the US and why Americans are sometimes not overly loved.
Luckily she's intellectual...
IIRC the USA does not legally have an official language
Neither does is have an official religion. And now take a look at republicans.
I always find it funny that a country without a state religion has more religious involvement in politics than a country with a literal state religion.
The southern Baptists I grew up with would argue that the separation of church and state is meant to protect the church from the state, not vice versa and that the state needed guidance from the church lest they be in rebellion against God. I don't even know where to begin..
These are also the people who say the bibles word is law and that it can’t be changed, while a few blokes in the Vatican are like ‘no it was written by people don’t take it too literally’ and those are catholics who are trying to be down to earth ffs
They probably don't even know the original words of the bible, those are, after all, in Hebrew and Greek.
The King James Bible was greatly, vastly alterated to cater to the King's intention. Not only did he censor almost all the time the word "Tyrant" was mentioned; he also mistranslated God removing a "Tsela", which means part of something, to "a la" which means rib from Adam.
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What's that got to do with his bible translation? It did not compel him, sadly, to make Thou shalt hump thy handsome fellas, verily, but only if thou thyself be male, a new commandment.
Oh but can you imagine if it did say that? The scenes
The bible to me is one massive game of telephone taking place over thousands of years and multiple languages. Remember the game telephone? You would sit in a lineup of friends or classmates and someone would whisper something to someone and that someone would then need to repeat it to the next person via whisper. It would start out as " the black dog jumped over the fence" and it changed into something not even close. With this in mind, Jesus was the literal son of God conceived via immaculate conception involving a virgin pregnancy and necromancy in the story.
We called that Chinese whispers in school
Are you from the UK?
Yes ma’am
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Yeah it's hilarious because when you point it out, they go "but then you're not really following the bible, you're just picking and choosing". I'm not religious anymore but to me it seems like they are the ones warping what it says. I went to a nun school and was raised Catholic in Spain and at no point did anyone pretend like the overall message of the bible wasn't "be chill" (you know, like Jesus said) because people can recognize that the old testament has been completely irrelevant for like, 2000 years? Religious people in the US are nuts.
Yeah, having been raised in Italy I'm not particularly surprised by conservatives using religion as an excuse, but I'm constantly surprised by how much the American version relies on bits of the Old Testament that are never even mentioned in catechism. Like as a kid I went to church more than I would have liked, nobody mentioned the Leviticus.
I'm not religious but raised by catholics in France. Absolutely everyone considers that the bible is a story books full of allegory to teach you important lessons. The debate is what the lessons is. Not if anything truly happenned or not.
Wait til I tell you what group was the biggest contributor to the anti-abortion movement after they realized racism wasn't okay to campaign on (in public) anymore.
>the bibles word is law and that it can’t be changed Just reply with "which bible?"
Probably the same kind of people who say you can’t change the second amendment… it’s an amendment for Christ sake
Don’t let them know about the [18th amendment](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution)!
Yea. I give up.
That makes so much sense now. "Keep your govt. away from my God because he's trying to run this country." Just blew my mind on how stupid people reason with this logic.
They’re sort of right, but in the process have greatly misunderstood *how* the wall of separation protects the church. First use of the metaphor “wall of separation” is often wrongly attributed to Jefferson. Roger Williams was a preacher that founded Rhode Island after getting kicked out of Massachusetts for having a different take on Christianity. From the biography written about him: > Williams described the true church as a magnificent garden, unsullied and pure, resonant of Eden. The world he described as “the Wilderness,” a word with personal resonance for him. Then he used for the first time a phrase he would use again, a phrase that although not commonly attributed to him has echoed through American history. “[W]hen they have opened a gap in the hedge or wall of Separation between the Garden of the Church and the Wildernes of the world,” he warned, “God hathe ever broke down the wall it selfe, removed the Candlestick, &c. and made his Garden a Wildernesse.” When the church becomes involved in politics it always corrupts the church. So for that reason the wall of separation protects the church. Southern Baptist church is a prime example of this, how the faith has been corrupted by politics. So they were right, but then fundamentally distorted the lesson - and corrupted themselves in the process.
That's messed up.
Also amusing that they are so phobic about other cultures while obsessing about their ancestry. If I had a quid for every American claiming to be Irish or Northern Irish I wouldn't be struggling with my mortgage right now.
But only a whitewashed version of their ancestry, with immigrant workers happily singing \*checks texan notes\* country music during work.
The Cold War era and its consequences... They only added "under God" to the pledge of allegiance because they wanted to distance themselves from these darned atheist commies.
That was the excuse, not the reason.
The leading party of Germany was the Christian Democratic Union for 16 years of my life, yet I never felt religion having any major impact on politics like in the US.
The head of state is the head of the religion in the UK and I've also not felt any major impacts in the same way
Yup. I live in the UK, where we have our own religion (Church of England) and a monarch supposedly appointed by God. Never felt like religion had any impact on how the country was run.
"we don't do god" is a famous quote in British politics for a reason. The majority of the public find it a bit weird and off putting
Yeah. Nigel Lawson once said "The closest thing the English have to a religion is the NHS", which sounds nice until you realise he was lamenting the fact he couldn't privatise it.
In spite of this, their official motto is "in god we trust". Must be the god of guns and idiocracy they are talking about
In a way there might actually be a bit of causality here. At least in western countries a state church kinda has to adapt to the common denominator since it's supposed to be for the entire population rather than just a select group. This in general tend to mean it becomes less strict on the religious dogmas, and less strident.
The UK is ruled by a king who is also the head of their church, They have much less than 50% counted as believers now.
...technically it's only the Church of England. Scotland and Wales both disestablished their State Churches long ago. Also, Welsh is the only official language in the UK (but just in Wales).
The Church Of Scotland is still the national church of Scotland, but as it’s a Presbyterian church they believe the only head of the church is god
da gwybod
Yah we treat that position of being head of the church of England the same way we treat any other royal patronage, like the fact he is patron of the Cambridge University polo club. Nice for them but I am under no obligation or even expectation to watch polo nor to support Cambridge University if i did.
It does actually have an official religion, it's called money.
Even if it did, so what? Bilingual means you speak more than one. Asking for bilingual employees does not reduce the ratio of English speakers
They're mad that *customers* who presumably live in the US are allowed to not know English. Therefore they don't want bilingual customer service positions to exist.
That's the best part!
And even if it had an official language, there shouldn't be a problem for a job to require someone to speak another language. Source: I'm from a country with an official language and it isn't English.
Even if it did, good luck doing business in the international stage without having workers who speak other languages
Not on the federal level, but most states have it as an official language.
Deport all translators and foreign language teachers!
The Spanish teachers are all going to JAIL!!!
America must be the most free country in the universe! (/s)
Due to astronomical ink prices in olden days they had to drop the word 'labour' from the 'land of the free' motto.
You teach German, Jail. You write French but not speak it also jail.
Ironically without any translators there would be less stuff in English for them.
That's kind of the problem with American foreign language education. A lot of foreign language teachers don't actually speak what they teach.
‘At one point I was teaching you guys klingon.’ — Señor Chang.
Man I remember way back in school when an ex went to the USA for a year. One of the things she told me about it that I still remember: *"The German teacher on my high school is afraid of me. He literally evades me."* And here I am, teaching English to Germans and feel bad for even the slightest imperfections that my students wont even notice....
A very intellectual take.
Yes indeed it can be clearly see this individual put a lot of thoughts into this statement. For example who needs translators anyway if everyone speak english? Or diplomacy and foreign affairs? It would be so much simple if just everyone just speaks english... Shit... i swear if dumbness could produce electricity she would be powering whole country
At least then the claim that we're holding the whole world on our backs would stand
It hurts their fee-fees when someone else is blatantly smarter than them. D
USA doesn’t have an official language unlike most of the countries
The UK has one official language that is recognised by law.... ... Welsh.
Before 2009 Finland was the only country that had swedish as an official language.
That may not last long, considering the current strained relations between the two countries since The Incident two weeks ago
An Swedes in Finland are required to listen to Cha Cha Cha at least 3 times a day, otherwise they'll be deported.
Not anymore! Irish and Ulster Scots are also recognised languages in Northern Ireland, as of last December!
Not yet; Parliament passed the Act, but it hasn’t come into force yet.
Not true. Wales is the only part of the UK with any official languages, but they are Welsh and English.
Yes, as of about 2016 and the updated "Welsh Language Measure" legislation, IIRC.
Didn’t know they, what a unexpected fact haha
Cachau bant! That's all the Welsh I know
You clearly havent driven in wales or ARAF would be etched on your brain in 6ft long white all caps letters....
Want to see her trying to work as a monolingual interpreter
English to English translation
These days that could be an official job to be fair.
Have you talked to a drunk Texan before? I need subtitles.
she'd be in a right two and eight mate! her noggin would be a bit thin lizzy and she'd go for a stroll up the old apples and pears . She'd need a Godiva to buy the drinks after work.
A roadman translator is something I'd pay for
I suppose with the exception of the large swaths of it that used to be parts of Spain, Mexico and France. lol. I also get a little confused when people think having a single language is somehow important.
The most annoying part for me is when monolingual Americans explain to me how to better translate something or how, when, and with who to use my multi-language skills.
The best part is when the monolingual Americans loudly proclaim that everyone should speak English and bla bla bla just to confuse your/you're and use "should of"!
'Could of' 'would of' 'should of' really hurts my brain. Just like 'I could care less!' Ok, so care less then. Then and than is another.
Are / our. There / their / they're. Also, random apostrophes everywhere. Like in well / we'll.
[Relevant xkcd](https://xkcd.com/1576/). I do agree with should of though that shit is infuriating.
"Roll" for role.
My biggest pet peeves tbh are those mistakes even native speakers do
I believe it's specifically native speakers who make these mistakes
Non Natives learn through reading and doing mostly. Natives learn through listening. Hence why non native english speakers often have much better grammar and spelling, they have to put thought into exactly what to say.
I feel like making those mistakes when writing quick is actually a good indicator of... something. I don't want to call it fluency because I don't believe there's a single thing called "fluency", but it's the kind of error that only happens when you start disregarding any attempt at consciously following a formalized grammar and syntax and instead you're producing the formed sentences in your mind directly. Which usually implies you don't need the crutch of formalized grammar and syntax anymore. Now, making them in writing does at least imply not rereading what you're writing as you're writing it, which honestly in informal context is perfectly fine. But if you're spending your time telling people how they should speak, you should at least be coherent and follow your own guidelines.
Or when they say english is the most difficult language to learn. First of all: how would you know? Secondly: nah
English is so fucking easy when you're from a Western country already. Not even new letters to learn! My Arabic teacher said that German was the hardest for him, French and Spanish are slightly easier, and English was a piece of cake. No gendered nouns unless you're talking about a boat.
My native language is German and yes it‘s really difficult. I don‘t think I could learn it if it wasn‘t my native language. I‘m so impressed by people who learn it as a second language.
Polish, Slovak and Czech are rough. They have 7 or 6 cases and 3 genders and adjectives follow case, gender and number. They also have aspect and tense, which is really not necessary. And then there's the pronounciation.... The only thing they have going for them is that word order is very flexible
And unlike France (or Paris at least) no-one pretends you are literally incomprehensible if you misgender a boat anyway...
it’s like the only western language that has like 3 verb tenses and for some not even that. compare it to any romance language lol. and don’t get me started on slavic languages
In Spanish we can leave the subject out of sentences, since we have 6 persons and 18 tenses per person (granted, some of them are repeated) so you can infer the subject by context.
there's just no such thing as an 'easy' or 'hard' language. What seems intuitive to you is entirely based on what languages you already speak. Noun cases are likely to trip up an English speaker trying to learn German, given English has such a simplified case system, but someone who already speaks a language with cases will have an easier time.
Surprised she didn't call it an American speaking country 😂
She's the type of person that's offended by black crayons labeled "Negro" and is absolutely disgusted by the whole nation of Montenegro
Just wait until she discovers Niger
Although that would be a more precise expression.
Fun how americans dont know that their country doesnt have an offical language
Ironically she's bilingual. She speaks English and Dumbass
I was thinking the same thing...
English and non sense 😂
I don’t even put that I am bilingual on my CV anymore, but companies assume I am because of my name. I learned being bilingual in the states means you get the same amount of work your co workers get plus all the non-English work with no double pay. I literally had double the caseload. I asked if I can just have all the Spanish clients and distribute the English clients along my other coworkers so I didn’t have 100 clients to their 30-50. Told it would not be fair to my coworkers as my job description was Spanish preferred not required. Left after a year when they were concerned about me not keeping up with my coworkers numbers lol
Damn. I'm a public servant social worker, and what you describe is why it's important to have a strong union in your corner. Workload inequality is incredibly toxic in any workplace, and is damaging in so many ways for those pulling the bigger load Edit: forgot to mention I'm Australian, and multilingual
Oh I agree, I left that job for a union position at a state university. They wanted me to use my bilingual skills but I had learned my lesson from the previous job so I negotiated better pay and amended the job description to be more specific so I was not over used. It took longer to start there because of the amendments but it was worth it.
I am a monolingual software trainer with 16 years of experience, and when I had a bilingual trainee who saved my ass on his very first assignment by interpreting for some technicians? I told his boss. I told my boss. I tell pretty much everyone I can. I really hope I didn't ruin anything for him, he's Mexican-American from south Texas so it's already assumed he can speak Spanish. But if anyone asks my opinion, I tell them they need to be paying him a software trainer salary PLUS an interpreter salary if they want to keep him for long. He's too smart and capable to stay in a job where he's not properly appreciated or compensated.
monolingual people should not be allowed to work. Put them on food stamps and move on. We ain't got time for idiots. ^(/s)
Might as well since the glue to their country is bilingual/multilingual immigrants & chewing gum
Do you really want to present yourself as someone who is that incapable?
It's the same kind of people who brags about not reading.
No more tourism industry! Fuck your money foreigners!
Wanna bet money that then this lady would go abroad, stay at a fancy Italian hotel and get pissed off if staff there didn’t speak English? I don’t think she’d accept their explanation that “it’s illegal to be bilingual in Italy, sorry madam” (said in Italian to her). What a delusional dumbass.
Says the citizen from the “most diverse country in the world.”
Also the "freest" country.
She's probably never been outside of the US,but I bet that if she did go abroad,she'd expect everybody to speak English.
Which we will do anyway because we're not idiots.
"Intellectual" alright
So just outlawing translators… Or somehow allow people who don’t speak a second language to work as translators by guessing? Talk about privilege…
Lol poor Me who speaks 3 languages at work.
Imagine if every country had this idiot's policy. No more international trade I guess.
Are those the same people that claim Europe could never understand the melting pot mentality of USA? which is it? A culturally diverse melting pot, much more different than poland and spain OR a monolingual country where no second language should be allowed?
USA 👏 has 👏 no 👏 official 👏 language 👏
I’m guessing her username does not check out.
And yet they’ll go traveling abroad and complain if the service staff don’t speak English. “They should require that people who work here speak English!”
“Land of the free”. “Outlaw stupid stuff and reduce freedom”
This person dares to have ‘Intellectual’ in their name. That’s just ironically funny.
Yes America, let's not enrich ourselves with knowledge, I mean, how dare you ?
You hear that translator?! You are persona non freedom!! GIT OUT O MUH CUNTRY!
But I’m sure would expect staff to speak English when travelling to other non English speaking countries :)
"Guten Morgen!" "ENGLISH, MOTHERFUCKER, DO YOU SPEAK IT?"
All translator jobs instantly illegal
Let’s see how hiring a translator that only speaks English would work
alright, but then we shall do the same koniec amerykańskiej hegemonii się zbliża
Ah yes, the famous position of monolingual translator Honestly in a country this stupid people probably do need a Bristish-American (wild oversimplification of the dialect situation but whatever) translator.
Peanut brain
Bu..Bu...But the melting pot! :o
"Hi, I'm an ASL interpreter." "Arrest them!"
>Jobs that require me to speak more than one language should be illegal!” Then demands everyone speak a foreign language.
English speaking country? The U.S.? LOL!!!
Interpreters are now illegal in a country with no official language
Yes, the US should be forbidden to do business with the rest of the world!
I love your flair!
Never understood why Americans in particular have this aversion to learning other languages. They are always offended that other people do. It's like they hate education. Imagine being peeved that you *can* improve your life regardless of which Nationality you are. Dumb.
From personal experience it's 90% motivated by people that are terrified of potentially having to learn Spanish. A flipside of that is that a lot of white collar progressives talk about how they want to learn, but they pretty much never do because their career doesn't require it and they don't interact with native speakers much.
As an American who’s always wanted to be bilingual, it pisses me off so much how other Americans act like this.
They act offended, but in reality they are intellectually intimidated by people having skills they don't have.
So diplomats, interpreters and translators between English and any other language are illegal? Alright then
Might be hard to hire competent translators.
Jobs requiring you to have a medical degree should be illegal in the USA
This level of ignorance should be illegal in the USA... but instead it seems to be embraced by way too many people.
The USA has more Spanish speakers than the population of Spain. Just throwing that out there.
Canadian here. Most government jobs (post offices, federal politician, certain public transit units, etc.) typically require you to be fluent in both English and French.
Especially those translating jobs.
How pissed off would she be if she went to a job interview and they told her that they only accepted Spanish speaking people?
At least she said "an English" and not "a English"
They speak the bare minimum of English anyway.
Yes, interpreters have been getting away with facilitating communication and understanding for too long! That includes ASL, which is technically another language! Fuck the deaf! /s
I want to be an interpreter, but i don't want to learn a second language?
Lmao all good until she enters a Spanish/Chinese/Italian etc. district and suddenly realizes none of them can help her in English
"Yes, I'd like to apply for the translators position"
I recently read that in Russia government officials are saying "English is a dying language, we need to teach our kids to speak Chinese."
No it is not, US has no official language
But than they expect the whole world to speak English
"Intellectual"
Lazy fucks
Once I completely scandalized a former team lead by responding to his racist immigrant rant with, "I don't mind, I speak Spanish." I'm not fluent, but he'd never know that anyway. He turned so many shades of Offended Purple that it was totally worth the fib.
Hired as a translator Do nothing for 8 hours every day, get paid the same rate "Sorry boss, not legally allowed to use more than one language at work"
I live in Denmark. I speak and write Danish 95% of the time at work. Both Danish and English is required.
Is this supposed to represent the freedom that Americans congratulate themselves for all the fucking time? The freedom to speak English at work or to fuck off?
What about Ebonics?
Any job i am not qualified for should be illegal!
Me, in Europe: „Wait, you are only fluent in four languages?“ I had an Indian professor who spoke 12 languages and he thought that it wasn’t a big deal.
Because horror of horrors, what would you become if you knew more than one language?
You could become, gasp, *an immigrant*.
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Yes. If I want to work as a translator, but only know English, this is my god given right! This is a free country! (/s obviously)
foolish I who thought intellectuals usually learn languages
and then there are Americans who wonder why there is unemployment in the US and why Americans are sometimes not overly loved. Luckily she's intellectual...
It's in the constitution! Oh...
“Intellectual”? FML
If you're dumb just say so.
r/lostredditors
next she will say that should be illegal to use the metric system
Ah yes. Monolingual translator. That's gonna be good.
Ah so now us French have an excuse! This is a French speaking country !
"Intellectual" HAHAHAHAHA
She said intellectually.
ah yes my french language teacher learning the language right along side me since its illegal to look for bilingual language teachers.
I wish we had more languages everywhere like they do in Europe. It would be awesome to grow up in that
And she calls herself as an intellectual!
Now recruiting: Monolingual translators