"This is Alabama. We speak English"

CptStern said:
so if you've just recently immigrated to japan and want to get a license so that you can drive a taxi (employment of choice for immigrants) you cant until you learn to read and write japanese ..you could be completely fluent in japanese but write at a grade one level ..whoops it looks like you're not getting a license which will force you to live on the street cuz you dont have a car to live in


why would you purposefully make it more difficult for immigrants to learn to speak english?
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I think you should learn the language before you immigrate. Its otherwise pretty silly to immigrate not knowing a lick of the native language.

You wouldn't go and enroll in Advanced Calculus before you knew how to add and subtract would you?
 
If you're coming to the US and somehow want to go to Alabama, you deserve to be bigoted against.
 
Escaep said:
I think you should learn the language before you immigrate. Its otherwise pretty silly to immigrate not knowing a lick of the native language.

You wouldn't go and enroll in Advanced Calculus before you knew how to add and subtract would you?
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Depends on the circumstances of the immigration. If I moved simply because I wanted to and could afford to live and work there then I'd want to learn the language first. If I was poor and my quality of life was not going to improve staying where I was then learning the language may not be a priority, and would pick it up once I arrived. I'm sure the latter example is more common when it comes to immigration.
 
Escaep said:
I think you should learn the language before you immigrate. Its otherwise pretty silly to immigrate not knowing a lick of the native language.

You wouldn't go and enroll in Advanced Calculus before you knew how to add and subtract would you?
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and this is completely besides the point as it's about offering tests in other languages not whether immigrants should learn the language or not. but you jump on your soupbox and preach brother
 
Blackthorn said:
Depends on the circumstances of the immigration. If I moved simply because I wanted to and could afford to live and work there then I'd want to learn the language first. If I was poor and my quality of life was not going to improve staying where I was then learning the language may not be a priority, and would pick it up once I arrived. I'm sure the latter example is more common when it comes to immigration.
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This. Not to mention that even in the first situation there's really no reason to spend months in your country idly learning when you could head to your destination and probably learn it faster there as well.
 
CptStern said:
and this is completely besides the point as it's about offering tests in other languages not whether immigrants should learn the language or not. but you jump on your soupbox and preach brother
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I don't believe you're surprised a topic has been rapidly diverted to a far more inflammatory one in the Politics section.
 
I...don't see why language has any bearing on...anything in this case. A person can be a law abiding citizen who needs to have a drivers license in order to get to a job that will keep them off welfare programs because they don't want to leech off the government, but just because they don't speak a certain language they can't take the te-

Oh wait, this is Alabama. I see.
 
"This is Alabama. We speak English"

Could have fooled me.

I'd hardly call that English.
 
Escaep said:
I think you should learn the language before you immigrate. Its otherwise pretty silly to immigrate not knowing a lick of the native language.

You wouldn't go and enroll in Advanced Calculus before you knew how to add and subtract would you?
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It's the difference between written and spoken English. The exam is a written test. You can live here and get around reasonably well with spoken and a rudimentary (eg not enough to pass a test) understanding of the written.
 
Man, you guys must have incredibly limited experience with southern accents. That guy's speaking fine.
 
Escaep said:
I think you should learn the language before you immigrate. Its otherwise pretty silly to immigrate not knowing a lick of the native language.

You wouldn't go and enroll in Advanced Calculus before you knew how to add and subtract would you?
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In the practical world it usually doesn't work like that.
 
Hay y'all, Sheepo e're. Now I don't gets why y'alls havin' trouble understandin' 'im. I do believe his speech is quite asseptable. Therefor' I do declair that y'alls musn't have much in the way of experience with this fine country accent!
 
Was that supposed to be hard to read, Krynn?
 
Krynn72 said:
Hay y'all, Sheepo e're. Now I don't gets why y'alls havin' trouble understandin' 'im. I do believe his speech is quite asseptable. Therefor' I do declair that y'alls musn't have much in the way of experience with this fine country accent!
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My point is people going "And you call that English?" are acting like this is a heavy accent or remotely hard to understand, and it's not at all. He's not nearly as bad as your post and even that would be easy to understand.
 
...you added too many "s" on that poorly done southern accent interpretation.

He's about average as far as southern accents go. Especially in Bama, it can get a lot thicker. If you have trouble understanding him then the problem is on your end.
 
Thick accents are always unintelligible if you're unfamiliar with them.
You'd have a harder time understand, say, a glaswegian than I would, but just because I understand doesn't mean the accent isn't atrocious.
 
Eejit said:
Thick accents are always unintelligible if you're unfamiliar with them.
You'd have a harder time understand, say, a glaswegian than I would, but just because I understand doesn't mean the accent isn't atrocious.
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Hmm, I suppose. Watched it again and tried break it down objectively... I just can't see how it's hard to understand someone who talks so slow.
 
The man is perfectly audibly understandable, ya god damn Spinaraks.
 
Acepilotf14 said:
Was that supposed to be hard to read, Krynn?
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Nope. Just pointing out that the accent (however poorly done) is awful and I hate it.

But the guy in the video isn't too bad, I agreed.
 
unozero said:
Also in Europe kids learn English from4th grade why can't South American Countries do the same? You'd think the close Proximity to the U.S would make that a no-brainer.
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You do know that you're the same distance from South America as they are from you, right? Have you learned Spanish or Portugese? 'Cause that'd be a no-brainer. Anyhoo, unless you spell colour with a 'u', feck away off with your 'people must use proper english bull....

:p
 
People still have respect for unozero? o_O
 
Just because you disagree with the guy on politics doesn't warrant him being treated like he's a jerk.
 
Eejit said:
People still have respect for unozero? o_O
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Sometimes, you need to accept people for who they are.

Kumbaya my lord, Kumbaya.

Kumbaya my lord, Kumbaya

Kumbaya my lord, Kumbaya

O Lord, kum bay ya.

Sparta said:
Just because you disagree with the guy on politics doesn't warrant him being treated like he's a jerk.
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There is a difference between politics and racism.

That being said, Kumbaya.
 
For driving I think that foreign people should be able to demonstrate that they can read road signs, apart from that, what's the difference?

As long as it doesn't cost hundreds of millions to have the drivers license test translated when it is changed / marked I don't see the problem.

Those drivers might become taxi drivers / lorry drivers and pay the tax back into the system.

As soon as you said Alabama and mentioned foreigners, I knew this would be a thread about some racist official. That's all it is, racism.

Not just because it's detrimental to foreign people moving there, but because his decision doesn't seem to have any kind of founding, it's just "if you want to live here you have to speak English". If it cost Alabama £100m per year extra I could understand it.

That's what I see, anyway. I guess America is none of my business.
 
Sparta said:
Just because you disagree with the guy on politics doesn't warrant him being treated like he's a jerk.
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Just because he's too stupid to be truly insulting doesn't mean he's not a jerk.

Wow, I'm a jerk.
 
he's got a new commercial out about making sex offenders re-register with the state every 90 days.

This might be a good idea...if we didn't count 15yr olds that send naked pictures of themselves to their 15yr old significant other as producers and distributions of child pornography.
 
Nuada said:
You do know that you're the same distance from South America as they are from you, right? Have you learned Spanish or Portugese? 'Cause that'd be a no-brainer. Anyhoo, unless you spell colour with a 'u', feck away off with your 'people must use proper english bull....

:p
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Yeah, they actually do have us learn Spanish.

Puta.
 
Well Tim James is winning the election right now by about 2500 votes. So....yea....we might be speakin english in alabama if he wins the run off.
 
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