Does it bother you when people speak their native language?

Does it bother you when people speak their native language in public?

  • Always

    Votes: 6 5.6%

  • Sometimes

    Votes: 42 38.9%

  • Never

    Votes: 60 55.6%
  • Total voters
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I whould simply tell them that this ain't their country and proceed to kick them the hell out. **** imigrants.
 
Its situational for me, like my friends can speak Spanish all they want to..but when a customer comes up and asks questions and can't speak English...come on! I think there was one time an Asian dude was lost and needed help and I drew him a map around town to where he needed to go. Tower of Babel people
 
PvtRyan said:
It really bothers me when people start speaking in some scripting language like Python or Ruby next to me like the bunch of elitist cunts that they are. The only languages you should be allowed to speak in public are C-style languages like C/C#/C++ and Java.
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When i found out that python used indentation i was all like "dude wtf ??" .
 
Ennui said:
Uhh, I don't think you guys quite understand how things are around here with hispanics, especially Mexicans. There are absolute shitloads of them (they recently became a larger minority than blacks) and most of them live here, there are't a whole lot of people in Mexico with the money to come to the US for tourism. Most of them speak very little English (or none).

I don't have a problem with that like Shamrock does, in fact I like the opportunity to practice my admittedly awful Spanish, but you guys look silly with these comments when you clearly have no idea what the social and economic dynamics of the situation are. Most of them are here to work, I encounter them when I was working because I worked at a LAN center and they would come to use the internet and sometimes had little conversations with the ones who knew some English (since my spanish is pretty much purely functional, not really conversational).
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TSRH.

Krynn72 said:
I still believe there should be one common language that is taught and spoken throughout the entire world. You can keep your own language, but at least learn one that everyone else can understand and speak. Like in Star Wars.
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Learn Esperanto!
 
I am not really bothered. At my university, about half of the student population speaks fluent Chinese, and speak it to one another constantly. It only gets frustrating if we're in a study group, and the other members of the group all start talking in Chinese about the problem, and then I don't know what the heck is going on.
 
IT IS A RELIGIOUS MATTER SHEEPO! YOU ****ING BLASPHEMER!
 
The Institute of Cybernetic Pedagogy at Paderborn (Germany) has compared the length of study time it takes Francophone high school students to obtain comparable 'standard' levels in Esperanto, English, German, and Italian.[24] The results were:

* 2000 hours studying German =
* 1500 hours studying English =
* 1000 hours studying Italian =
* 150 hours studying Esperanto.

It should be noted, however, that these figures can only reflect the respective learning difficulty of these languages for native French speakers. They should be compared to figures from other countries to allow for a more general perspective on the learning difficulty of Esperanto.
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Wow. Comparatively simple to learn.
 
esperanto.jpg


YEEAAH BOIII!
 
It doesn't normally bother me, but when I got to places like Sydney and hear it more than English then it starts to grate on me a little.
 
Esperanto seems awesome. We should all learn it.
 
No, it doesn't. However, their existance may.


What I really think to be annoying is when people don't speak their native language. There are people I see that speak English because they think it's cool or something, but they can't speak even a third as well as I can, and you don't see me speaking English unless I'm talking to a foreignor.
 
Corp. Sheepo said:
Who are being stupid. Honestly, it's a pleasant ****ing greeting.
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What's stupid is saying Merry Christmas to a Muslim, don't you think?

The way I see it, what religion does, is promote the worship and/or glorification of historical leaders and the wars waged between peoples since the beginning of recorded history, which does nothing but ensure that the wars continue.

So, to me, religion itself stupid.
 
15357 said:
What I really think to be annoying is when people don't speak their native language. There are people I see that speak English because they think it's cool or something, but they can't speak even a third as well as I can, and you don't see me speaking English unless I'm talking to a foreignor.
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Maybe they are practising?


As regards the question, it all really depends on context. Generally it doesn't bother me, but sometimes it can be discourteous in a larger group situation.
 
It only bugs me if they are being rude or generally doing it when they are meant to be talking to a larger group as a whole. Say your in a group discussion and one or two people who speak the same language start nattering away to themselves in our midst. I find that somewhat rude and annoying, the least they can do is take it outside or something if they have no interest with interacting with the group as a whole but otherwise nope, doesn't bother me.
 
15357 said:
No, it doesn't. However, their existance may.


What I really think to be annoying is when people don't speak their native language. There are people I see that speak English because they think it's cool or something, but they can't speak even a third as well as I can, and you don't see me speaking English unless I'm talking to a foreignor.
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:( I speak English to my flatmate all the time. Screw you.
 
Ennui said:
Esperanto seems awesome. We should all learn it.
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That would be awesome if we all learned it.

Though more realistically I should probably learn Spanish instead.
 
Only Russian. I hate russians living in Estonia. I'd kill them all with my fists.
 
Krynn72 said:
IT IS A RELIGIOUS MATTER SHEEPO! YOU ****ING BLASPHEMER!
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****.
VirusType2 said:
What's stupid is saying Merry Christmas to a Muslim, don't you think?
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People don't think a lot about it when they say off hand greetings like "Merry Christmas!" and if they say it to a muslim and they take offense to that, it's pretty stupid.
 
G(ordon)-man said:
Only Russian. I hate russians living in Estonia. I'd kill them all with my fists.
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Ah, living history. I'de be more bothered by your alarmingly primitive attitude towards your neighbours but lets be honest, Russians aren't nice people in general, and that whole invading you and absorbing Estonia into the USSR was a tad unfair.
 
I think it's very important that people speak their native language, whether it's around people of different nationality or not.

I'm a canadian born Hong Kong-nese (Born in Hong Kong when it was still Britain's "property") myself, and have studied in an international school. I absolutely hate it when other Hong Kong-nese pretend they don't understand cantonese. They speak to store clerks in English, they pretend they don't understand cantonese when spoken to in cantonese, and the worse thing is they don't know how important it is to be more versatile in life.

If you grew up learning english more than your native language, it is vital that you communciate in your own native language amongst your friends so that you don't fall behind. In my opinion, it's embarassing if you can't speak your own language properly. Too bad there are still parents nowadays that raise their child up to speak a different language than their own native tongue. These kids often believe themselves to be of a different nationality just because they can't speak their own.

I understand it when my friends communciate in their own language. They're proud of it. I think it's abnormal if a person of a particular nationality choose to never communicate in their own mother tongue.
 
If they're having a conversation and both laugh in your face without have made the tell tale signs at which they have told an amusing story. Motions that give it away are things like eye contact, hand gestures etc. It pisses me off that they have the nerve to speak in a language that I don't understand and have the capability to secretly speak in a sardonic matter.
 
VirusType2 said:
What's stupid is saying Merry Christmas to a Muslim, don't you think?
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What's stupid is religious people taking offense to others wishing them a good religious holiday that they don't specifically partake in. If someone says "Happy Channukah" to me even though I'm not Jewish, why should I be mad at all? They didn't say "Have a shitty day". They are being nice.

Furthermore, it's impossible to tell one's religion just by looking at them (minus yarmulkes and religious headscarves). There are Muslim whites, brown Christians, and black Jews. The only real alternative would be to ask someone what religion they align themselves with before wishing them a happy insert-religious-holiday-here. And to me, that seems far, far more offensive.
 
No, I only don't like when shop-assistants can't speak our language, like a lot of Vietnamese people here.
 
Kyllähän se vähän ärsyttää kun ulukomaalaiset tullee ja vääntää Englantia. Ei ne muut kielet niinkä ärsytä, mutta se Englanti. URGH.
 
No
Why would it bother me?
It never has and never will
 
I like listening to French people laugh over Ventrilo. It's hilarious.
 
It only bothers me when it's a store employee who can't understand basic english. I get the whole "english is hard to learn" notion but if you are going to be in situations where dialogue is an integral part of the job then ****ing learn in.
 
Tyguy said:
It only bothers me when it's a store employee who can't understand basic english. I get the whole "english is hard to lean" notion but if you are going to be in situations where dialogue is an integral part of the job then ****ing learn in.
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English is hard to lean?
 
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