peepal godda stop speekin mexikin n start speekin amurkin.
ziptnf
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Originally posted by Nostalgic
Don't they marry cousins and have sex with farm animals in Kentucky too?
Kentucky? Seriously?
I live in Louisville, which I consider not part of Kentucky. KY can be pretty embarrassing, but I like to consider myself pretty normal.
bARTovsky
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Originally posted by tubularbills
i don't want to sound like i'm pro-this guy, but technically, aren't ALL road signs in the USA in English?
i mean, you don't see "halt" instead of "stop"...so why test in German? you know?
That's a good point. However, I think it would be far easier to remember the English word "Stop" and what it means regarding a road sign than it would be to learn entire sentence structure, grammar, etc. which would take some time.
So reading a test where a whole question is asked in your native language, while referring to English road signs, etc. may be a lot easier to answer.
wing
:haha:
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Originally posted by ziptnf
USA!!! USA!!! USA!!! USA!!! USA!!! USA!!! USA!!!
ilold
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Originally posted by bARTovsky
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jackson
LOL THIS THREADDD
tubularbills
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Originally posted by bARTovsky
That's a good point. However, I think it would be far easier to remember the English word "Stop" and what it means regarding a road sign than it would be to learn entire sentence structure, grammar, etc. which would take some time.
So reading a test where a whole question is asked in your native language, while referring to English road signs, etc. may be a lot easier to answer.
yeah, road signs are pretty ing easy to understand...you don't have to be a rocket scientist or bilingual to get that a big ass red octagon means "don't go". but the written test (which, i don't know if this is true or not) may have english word scenarios? it's been forever since i took my driver's test. don't know if much has changed. but there were actual questions like, "if you are at an intersection where someone is crossing and turning left, who has the right of way?" i mean, is there like that? if so, would it be difficult to answer correctly if you didn't speaka da engrish?
d_Verge
Moongoose
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Originally posted by Jackson
:wtf: :haha:
Is this some kind of joke!? So you'll save money on ink by doing this? Has he not considered the revenue from Driving tests and Road tax (Do you guys have road tax or something similar?).
Well considering other gems in the news this week (paying your doctor with chickens, getting arrested for looking illegal in AZ, that one dude calling for deportation of american born citizens if their parents were illegal immigrants) this video actually doenst sound all that bad when compared to that.
bARTovsky
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Originally posted by tubularbills
yeah, road signs are pretty ing easy to understand...you don't have to be a rocket scientist or bilingual to get that a big ass red octagon means "don't go". but the written test (which, i don't know if this is true or not) may have english word scenarios? it's been forever since i took my driver's test. don't know if much has changed. but there were actual questions like, "if you are at an intersection where someone is crossing and turning left, who has the right of way?" i mean, is there like that? if so, would it be difficult to answer correctly if you didn't speaka da engrish?
Yea I have no idea. When I took my written test like 8 years ago up here in Ontario I do remember there being scenario questions.
bARTovsky
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Originally posted by d_Verge
He is the walrus. Coo-Coo-Ka-in'Choo.
Lira
This is inexcusable and makes no sense whatsoever.
First of all, language is hardly a hindrance when it comes to driving: the red octagon, the white triangle with a thick red border, and all those pictograms are the essential bit when it comes to driving — the words, not so much. The vocabulary that matters is part of such a small array of words that any aphabetised person can drive in a foreign traffic system just fine.
This is just part of the recent way of linguistic xenophobia that's taken the US: I don't know what happened with the English-Only Movement in Nashville, but this is far from being the first attempt to further alienate anyone that doesn't speak English "so they learn to speak it".
Nonsense. Nonskilled immigrants usually struggle with the language whether or not it's enforced, and they may never actually learn to speak it. If you simply force them to learn the language, and they fail to do so, it will only make their living a lot more difficult, thus reducing the chances of their children making any progress. This is particularly pernicious because it's the children that first master the language of this new country: if they are not given the chance to assimilate naturally, that hurts the economy and creates an even deeper social division.
