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Thread ID: 20401 | Posts: 12 | Started: 2005-09-25
2005-09-25 22:37 | User Profile
Lowe's Home Improvement Centers has now graduated from Spanish language signage in their stores, to Spanish language advertising palyed over their public address system.
I asked 4 Lowe's employees if they could translate the Spanish language advertisments, or if they understood what the adv's were saying. None of the 4 employees could even hazard a guess.
I had 3 years of Spanish in high school, and some college & work exposure to the language, and it really pissed me off that even with my knowledge of Spanish the dialect & idiom of Mexican used wasn't real clear to me...
Why the hell are outfits like Lowes so damn determined to turn the United States into a Tower of Babel where no one understands what the hell is going on...
In this state at least 40% of the citizens are of German ancestry---what if we were to demand German signs and German language advertisments? Even if we didn't have a clue about what they said.
I'm really getting tired of this bullshit---and---I hope some of you complain to Lowes too---about this foreign language bullshit.
Btw, como se dice, Lowes Blows in Spanish...:furious:
2005-09-25 22:52 | User Profile
Every time you buy something, complain to the cashier. Tell them this is not Mexico.
2005-09-25 23:05 | User Profile
Have any of you noticed that the hardware, building supplies & materials packaging instructions in Spanish are more detailed than those in English...wtf...
Yeah, ask the clerks, and ask the manager, and do complain in writing, and, on the phone...:caiphas: be a whining jew...
2005-09-26 01:09 | User Profile
PD,
Yeah, I've noticed. Years ago when I worked at commercial construction I pointed out to my foreman a 65 gallon bucket of Joint compound (sheetrock "mud") that had the instructions printed in English and Spanish. I said to him they have the right people in mind. This was right when all these damn Mexicans started showing up in Atlanta.
2005-09-26 01:23 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Pennsylvania_Dutch] the dialect & idiom of Mexican used wasn't real clear to me... [/QUOTE] That's because Mexican is a gutter form of Spanish. A friend of mine studied in Spain and speaks Spanish fluently, she had been a manager for a Luby's restaraunt for a while and Luby's figured that would work out great. Problem is the Mexicans couldn't understand her and vice versa, not only that, they were illiterate in their own language! Why do we have all this signage in Spanish when they can't even read to begin with?
I noticed when I was in Austin that there were no signs in Spanish, anywhere in the city. Hmm, state capital doesn't have a problem with bilingualism but the rest of us have to put up with it.
2005-09-26 01:25 | User Profile
Mexican is to Spanish what Ebonics is to English.
Petr
2005-09-26 01:26 | User Profile
:clap:Exactly! [QUOTE=Petr]Mexican is to Spanish what Ebonics is to English.
Petr[/QUOTE]
2005-09-26 02:21 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Sertorius]PD,
Yeah, I've noticed. Years ago when I worked at commercial construction I pointed out to my foreman a 65 gallon bucket of Joint compound (sheetrock "mud") that had the instructions printed in English and Spanish. I said to him they have the right people in mind. This was right when all these damn Mexicans started showing up in Atlanta.[/QUOTE] I've seen this whole Latrino mess evolve too.
The Latrinos are really killing the high wage and good benefit construction jobs.
2005-09-26 02:27 | User Profile
PD,
Not only that, but most of them do lousy work. I know this to be true because I have had to go behind them and fix things they screwed up. I had an employer ask me one time what happen to all the good workers. I told him if they paid a decent wage they would get good people.
2005-09-26 02:40 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Sertorius]PD,
Not only that, but most of them do lousy work. I know this to be true because I have had to go behind them and fix things they screwed up. I had an employer ask me one time what happen to all the good workers. I told him if they paid a decent wage they would get good people.[/QUOTE] You mean Mexicans aren't the finest engineers on the planet?:huh:
2005-09-26 02:45 | User Profile
And they don't work for much cheaper if hired by an individual rather than by an employer: it's the employer that gets all the benefits of illegal labor, while the rest of the people pay about the same for inferior work and attitude (and appearence -- sullen cucarachas are fugly and repulsive) while subsidizing cucarachas.
2005-09-26 02:45 | User Profile
BB,
They aren't even good at what polite White folks would call "afro-engineering". Impolite White folks use a ruder term.