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2009-04-18 Home Front: Culture Wars
California State Senate approves bill banning language discrimination
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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-04-18 09:38|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top

#1 "I kan haz cheezeburger"?
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2009-04-18 09:54||   2009-04-18 09:54|| Front Page Top

#2 so McD will have to have about a gazillion signs with each item listed in multiple languages [you just wait for the law suits - big pockets]. Those safety signs in English and Spanish, just wait till the walls are covered in all the languages spoken in LA. Welcome to the tower of Babel.

Meanwhile, literally millions of Chinese are studying English. Switzerland, the land of four official languages, has made English the second language to learn in school.
Posted by Procopius2k 2009-04-18 10:03||   2009-04-18 10:03|| Front Page Top

#3 Next they will be suing us because we can't speak spanish or any other language that a person living in CA might speak.
Posted by Gluting Fillmore6653 2009-04-18 15:22||   2009-04-18 15:22|| Front Page Top

#4 I can see calling 911 in a couple of years might be a real adventure.....
Posted by Zenobia Ebbealing3894 2009-04-18 17:16||   2009-04-18 17:16|| Front Page Top

#5 Back in the 90's when I was a personnel director for a delivery service in Washington, D.C.; a man applied for a as a driver with the phrase ... "Inna yob"... When I asked (three times) if he could speak and/or read English, he replied with the same phrase. When I informed him of our minimum language requirements (the ability to read and speak the language of our clients) he was incensed by my "bigotry and racism". Some things never change.
Posted by WolfDog 2009-04-18 20:10||   2009-04-18 20:10|| Front Page Top

#6 It seems to me that an adequate defense is ignorance. If someone cannot communicate in a language that you understand, there is no way to complete a transaction of any kind.

In this case, the professional golf association should have made a requirement for competitors to read a complex legal document in English, and to explain it to a satisfactory degree in layman's terms.

This would be done with the excuse of avoiding legal liability, clearly following some complex federal rule, or any number of documents that only someone proficient in English could understand or explain. As such, they could not be done by proxy, that is, an English speaking lawyer, but only by the competitors themself.
Posted by Anonymoose 2009-04-18 21:43||   2009-04-18 21:43|| Front Page Top

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