Speak English (405 hits)
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Submitted by Derick Lawson <Palthainon.at.gmail.com> (View user info) at 2005-06-10 00:20:01 EDT
If you find yourself constantly wondering what you are doing discussing pointless matters with a friend, or previously interesting acquaintance, don't feel bad. Its not your fault, your friend just doesn't know how to speak English.
Conversation has several elements to fullfill an interest in those speaking. Most of these are hardly given a first glance before they're shunned as useless. The result: a bunch of a half-asses speaking half-assedly demanding more respect and money than most would be willing to pay for a steady job in Nasa. This is where I think old English dialect played an important, and hopefully model performance in the history of our local language.
You see, old English dialect wasn't created for convenience. It was used to mimics an ideal conversation with a friend or cohort. Interest in your partners life, feelings, news, etc; Concern for their well being, and finally discussion of shared subjects. Those who fell short of these useful, though repetitive, steps to a full conversation were considered to be brute. Seen as someone that couldn't create the semblance of a "proper" way to convey emotions and spell them out in a pleasant manner were treated with disrespect and/or completely ignored.
What many have failed to put together is that was done FOR A REASON. If you can't portray your own being as a individual with understandable dialect, proper use of the English language to display your current mood, and still keep in mind the basics of a decent conversation then you weren't even tolerated. This should, and hopefully hasn't altogether, change.
So here's the thing, learn to speak English in a manner that can be understood by 90% of your regions population or be quiet until you do understand. Until then, you will have no respect and nor should you demand any. If you don't understand the place around you, then stop and figure it out before you go blurting into a tenure of "Don't be given' me that shit!" from those that can't make sense of what the fuck your saying.
This particular part of the post is designated for roughly one or two types of people I could think of. Now, to discredit the rest.
Angry because you don't understand the operator on the phone? Can't read the guidelines for riding the subway? The directions on the back of an item designated specifically for an area you aren't from? TOUGH SHIT.
This country was created to take in your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door! Interesting, no where in the quote does it say anything about accommodating foreign languages better than the native's! So while your sick ass is staying in the country collecting money tax free, do us all a favor and pick yourself up a copy of an English to Whatever-bullshit-country-your-from and figure out what everyone else around you is trying to say. Yeah, the economy benefits and the stocks increase, unfortunately so is my temper as I throw my patience to the ground and beat your foreign ass. Languages aren't that hard when you consider the benefit you pull from earning a currency far above your own.
Things like this make me glad that we're not a complete democracy, god forbid 50,000,000 Mexicans have control of a country worth 60% of the Earth's resources when they can't even keep their original country from plummeting sunbraro first into the Earth. Fascism might be a motherfucker, and technically what most are "against", but it has its benefits. This happens to be one of them.
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Submitted by stevie_says (user info) at 2005-06-10 00:20:53 EDT (#)
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Burns: I can't understand a word you're saying.
Homer: My name is Homer Simpson!
Burns: You're just babbling incoherently...
Homer: Oh, you're a dead man, Burns. Oh, you're dead! You're dead,
Burns!
Who Shot Mr. Burns (Part 1)
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