And, to be fair, there are millions of U.S. citizens who speak English as a second language.
About 1 in 10 according to the U.S. census do not speak English at home.
https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2022/12/languages-we-speak-in-united-states.html
Spanish is first, Chinese a distant second. I am guessing there are also plenty of indigenous people, especially in Alaska considering its isolation, who primarily speak native languages at home.
I would think is a problem for English natives is the consonants themselves, because we have a lot of them and many don’t exist in English.
I am not an Arabic speaker at all, but one of the few amusing points of the Iraq war was that absolutely no one in the U.S. media could agree on how to pronounce Qatar. There were even segments on how to pronounce it. They didn’t agree with each other.
Of course, they never actually put someone who spoke Arabic on TV to get them to pronounce it properly. They probably couldn’t anyway considering the intelligence level of news anchors I’ve worked with.
It’s not even a real estate issue sometimes. I worked in an office in an industrial facility- printing custom boxes. Everyone in an office job was on a hybrid schedule. No one’s job required them to be at the office. All conversations were by Slack, all meetings were by Zoom even if we were all in the office. They could have knocked down the office space and put in at least two more industrial printers. Considering how backed up we got around Christmas, that would have helped them.
Some of this is just old assholes who think people need to be in the office all the time so they can watch them or something. I don’t know.
At least they didn’t make me wear a tie.
Agreed 100%. I used to work a hybrid schedule and I was much more efficient when I was at home and could be both relaxed and not distracted or annoyed by coworkers.
Honestly, I’ll be surprised if he spends more than a few days at the White House.
At some point, you’re fighting evolution and lizard brains. Some people can overcome their prejudices, but expecting the world’s human population to be able to overcome that fight or flight response to strangers is probably not something achievable.
Where do you think undergrads will be trying to go now?
Europe?
Yes, but then where would they get good little soldiers for the meat grinder from?
Remember when Republicans hated the idea of death panels?
Sorry, but us hairless chimps will forever be scared of the other hairless chimps on the other side of the hill.
Nope. He already made that choice and it’s stupider than that.
It really did rain on my wedding day and I did not see the irony of the situation. We were inside so it really wasn’t a problem.
There is a small Holocaust museum in the town where I currently live. It was founded by Eva Kor, an amazing Holocaust survivor (and Mengele victim) who preached forgiveness, even publicly forgiving the Nazis who tortured her and killed her family. She settled here in Terre Haute, Indiana and eventually opened the museum.
https://candlesholocaustmuseum.org/
Except when school buses are there to force the local kids to go (and I’m sure they aren’t really interested), the parking lot is almost always empty.
People don’t give a shit about the last Holocaust. No reason for them to give a shit about this one.
There’s a reason why a lot of my family tree doesn’t fork and it’s why I’m getting the fuck out.
Are there any non-sex criminals in this cabinet?
When you’re rich, they let you do it.
Why thank you. Tonic is definitely my first choice if it’s just one mixer, although my go-to drink is usually a bloody Mary.
Oh, I see. This has all been about sexism. My mistake.
AP news is clearly not hiring the best editors anymore.
The word ethics in House “Ethics” Committee was not put between quotation marks at any point in the article.