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July
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- Thompson supporter calls Quinn a whore
- Bloomberg rejects public authorities reform
- Illegal alien boss failed to pay workers comp
- Dilapidation and trepidation in Park Slope
- Rivera urges Paterson to stay out of assembly race
- Paying the homeless to leave town
- Good government group doing Quinn's bidding
- The great Rego Park garden giveaway!
- Bloomberg already considering 4th term
- Hiram's court date is September 14th
- A hell of a hole in East Elmhurst
- Is development of the West Side realistic?
- How to recycle your crapper the green way
- Landlords abandoning buildings
- A good intentioned bad law?
- Wife burns husband's crotch for cheating on her
- Bloomberg orders harrassment of legal gun owner
- Bird's eye view of Queens Plaza strip club
- Save Coney Island on rezoning vote: ‘A Sad Day for...
- District 20 debate turns into Royal Rumble
- No third term for Manhattan tweeder
- Bloomberg losing ground in new poll
- Pelican makes surprise stop at Riis Park
- Illegal hotel walls in Manhattan family
- Print your own parking placard
- No-bid is a no-win
- Vibrant! Diverse! Enough!
- Crying over expensive milk
- Hemmerdingers want Atlas Park back
- The crappiest street in Queens?
- Queens Lotto winner comes forward
- Benefit for 5 Pointz victim Thursday night
- DeBlasio back on the ballot
- Partial building collapse in Harlem
- Feds investigating Richmond Hill bird smugglers
- Gioia smells blood, pounces on rival's supporters
- Choe runs on anti-American platform
- The defensive despot
- Flushing homeowners earn big bucks for U.S. Open r...
- Cuomo probing Carrozza's claims
- College Point park bathroom pees on kids
- Flushing Meadow Park bird rescue underway
- Vallone got campaign contributions from WM
- Don't pick up passengers in a bike lane
- Pilots' apartments more like flophouses
- New parking method causing havoc in Forest Hills
- City hospitals have major issues
- Astoria won't shut up
- Rethinking the WTC plan
- Someone finally cut the grass!
- Why found treasures are best kept quiet
- A challenging time in the 20th Council District
- CitiField contractor cheated employees
- Condo buyer's remorse on the rise
- Bronx version of Beavis and Butthead
- Skeeter spraying schedule for this week
- New York before Dinkins, Giuliani and Bloomberg
- 5 Pointz still shut down
- Carrozza says she'll run again; tosses family into...
- Developer eyes St. John's site
- Property taxes take a hike
- Landlord still neglecting potential landmark
- Behold the Aqueduct racino
- Mayor bans idling
- Fraud convictions fail to stop crime by illegal alien
- Queenscape: Northern Boulevard
- The joke's on the GOP
- This certainly can't only be happening in NJ
- Con Ed substation ablaze in Little Neck
- Guess who's back?
- Parks caught lying about Highland Park again
- Grandma gets slapped with huge fine
- Elmhurst homeless shelter nixed
- Oh, how cute!
- de Blasio gets tossed off ballot
- Gillibrand wants funding for English instruction i...
- When beer gardens ruled Queens
- Automotion = autodecline in property values
- Please come over here next!
- LIRR overpasses need to be overhauled
- Throgs Neck fire exposes vulnerability of our infr...
- Electrical contractor a real cheap bastard
- Bloomberg: "Do as I say, not as I do"
- Why wasn't the Deutsche Bank tragedy Bloomberg's d...
- MTA mismanagement delays 2nd Ave subway
- Car stolen in Woodhaven with baby inside
- God help Elmhurst
- No show council members
- Russians marrying for green cards
- Mister Softee threatens to rub out Kool Man
- Maspeth wants fewer trucks and more parks
- Thanks for the reminder
- Thompson to Bloomie: "Liar, liar pants on fire!"
- Daily News encourages illegal hotels (again)
- Introducing the Queen Motel
- Bicyclist hits pedestrian then beats the shit out ...
- Brian behind bars
- Luxury condo glut in Brooklyn
- Quote of the week
- Bloomberg quite a caricature
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Until congress grows a pair and makes English our "official" language we will have to put up with press 1 for English. :(
Official language?
I suppose that is a good plan because everyone whose first language is English speaks, "good English well."
I suppose Europe should arrest or execute American tourists when they visit since they can't speak the local tongue but demand the natives speak American English.
HOw offensive to me as an American, born and bred.
Call or write to the elected officials. Tell them we don't want to press 1 for english! Remind them we pull the little bar in the voting booth.
"I suppose Europe should arrest or execute American tourists when they visit since they can't speak the local tongue but demand the natives speak American English."
When your business is tourism, you speak the language of the tourists. They aren't staying permanently. However, those who aren't in the tourism industry shouldn't have to foot the bill for translating everything into 12 languages to benefit those who come here seeking "to make money to send back home." Those who want to be American learn English, as generations past and present have proven.
For 311, you press 2 for English. What the hell is that?
No comprendo.
What, and deny ethic idenity which keeps people apart, lets you play them off against each other, and makes tweeding so easy?
I suppose that is a good plan because everyone whose first language is English speaks, "good English well."
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If I can understand what they are saying, then their English is good enough for me. I wonder how many foreign language speaking people aren't very polished in the "proper" way to speak their language. I bet you would NEVER goof on them!
Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?
This verbal class distinction by now should be antique.
If you spoke as she does, sir, Instead of the way you do,
Why, you might be selling flowers, too.
An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him,
The moment he talks he makes some other
Englishman despise him.
One common language I'm afraid we'll never get.
Oh, why can't the English learn to set
A good example to people whose
English is painful to your ears?
The Scotch and the Irish leave you close to tears.
There even are places where English completely
disappears. In America, they haven't used it for years!
Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?
Norwegians learn Norwegian; the Greeks have taught their
Greek. In France every Frenchman knows
his language fro "A" to "Zed"
The French never care what they do, actually,
as long as they pronounce in properly.
Arabians learn Arabian with the speed of summer lightning.
And Hebrews learn it backwards,
which is absolutely frightening.
But use proper English you're regarded as a freak.
Why can't the English,
Why can't the English learn to speak?
Respects to George Bernard Shaw Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe
I like the way she says "LANGWEEGE."
We don't need an "official language" because:
(1) All you social Darwinists that post here would agree that you can't advance in society without learning English. It's our de facto "official language," so if you don't learn it you deserve to fail.
(2) It's an attack on states' rights. Say you have a state in which a significant portion of the population speaks a "foreign language" because the border crossed them (Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico). Where in the Constitution can the Federal Government come into a state and tell its people that they can no longer use the language they've been using for generations IN AMERICA? Quebec almost seceded from Canada because of language rights.
(3) There is no standard for the English language. English doesn't have a regulatory body like the RAE for Spanish and the Académie Française for French. Until you codify it, you can't have English as an "official language." And then we'd have to deal with the word police. "Kimonos" would become "Japanese bathrobes."
(4) It's just more profit-eating regulation for businesses. The government would be telling me to whom I can and cannot market.
As long as I have to option to press 1 for English, I don't mind. When my only option is to press 2 for Spanish, Mandarin, Norwegian, or Kreyòl, I'll complain.
Where da white wimmin at?
If we allow our country to be carved into various lingual ghettos it will cost a fortune. Requiring new immigrants to learn English is just common sense, and Americans who think those outside America should speak English instead of their native tongue are idiots. When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
Bloomturd won't be happy unless NYC has the world's tallest Tower Of Babel.
For 311, you press 2 for English. What the hell is that?
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WTF! Never having called 311, I did not know that. I blame Bloomberg. (Apparently on his direction, in full pandering mode.) After all, doesn't he claim to have "created" 311, like Al Gore created the Internet?
And whether or not there is an official English language, formally defined and approved by some organization, there is something understood to be English, admittedly containing words and expressions from other languages. Otherwise, "Press 1 (or 2, as the case may be) for English" itself wouldn't make sense. Even the masters of 311 and other phone menus realize that.
What happens if you push all of the buttons?
What happens if you push all of the buttons?
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You get connected to the United Nations.
Ik moet iets hebben gemist, ik dacht dat we allemaal Nederlands sprak.
Language spoken:
English 82.1%
Spanish 10.7%
other Indo-European 3.8%
Asian and Pacific island 2.7%
other 0.7% (2000 census)
In a Democratic Republic, majority rules.
the song is dumb
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