Iowa Aviation Weather...en Espanol

No.

The reason may be my mono-lingual abilities within a multi-lingual family.

The US is in no danger of losing english as the primary language. We'll
all look up one day and forget what all the concern was about.

Jay Honeck wrote:
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/forecast/Map...=121&map.y=125

(or http://tinyurl.com/39s8j5 if that URL wraps...)

Does anyone else find it disturbing that the National Weather Service
in the United States is paying out taxpayer money to a government
employee to create a foreign-language web page?
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Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Uhhh... no. The website was in =Spanish=, so it is relevant whether it
is a foreign language or not. And the word "foreign" doesn't mean
"foreign to Jay". Spanish is not foreign to the United States.

So, such a rant would be is relevant, and right. Not irrelevant and wrong.

Um, sorry to burst your bubble, Jose, but Spanish is a foreign
language in the United States. Just because an ever-growing segment
of the population speaks it does not make it anything but foreign.

My German ancestors onces dominated the upper midwest, especially
Wisconsin. In Milwaukee, it was completely normal to hear only German
spoken, everywhere. (In fact, I have nieces and nephews currently
attending German-language-only school in Milwaukee.)

That never changed the fact that German was (and still is) a foreign
language in America, and my ancestors learned the native tongue --
English -- as rapidly as possible.

And the US government certainly didn't squander tax money translating
everything into German for them.

Besides, do you know how much it costs to translate the website into
Spanish? I resent the government translating the website into babytalk.
=That's= where the problem lies.

I don't care how much it costs -- *ANY* amount is absurd. If the NWS
has so much extra money laying around that they can afford such silly
expenditures, I'd say we should get the extra money the FAA craves
from their budget.
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Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

But you don't mind using tax dollars to post your Hispanic-bashing, eh?
Because, make no mistake, Usenet was created with tax dollars.

Now I'm "Hispanic bashing" because I don't want my tax dollars
squandered translating the *weather reports* into Spanish?

Check your temperature, CJ. You may have picked up an unusual strain
of malaria, as you seem to be feverish....

;-)
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Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

On 2007-02-13, Jay Honeck wrote:
But one must be decided upon and adhered to, officially, or America is
doomed to become Yugoslavia.

A bit like Switzerland (4 languages) hasn't, then?

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No, Jay, this thread is about your bigotry and small-mindedness which
raises up every few weeks. If you cared about government waste you'd
be raising hell about the incredible waste going on in Iraq, courtesy
of neocons like yourself. Or do you still think that democracy is
going to flower in that miserable place?

Great job, "Bob". Your quote now stands for all time as the ultimate
example of Usenet hypocricy.

Imagine: In the very same sentence, you accuse me of bigotry toward
(presumably) Hispanics *AND* then go on to display your own prejudice
and bigotry toward Iraqis.

Normally we don't see that kind of tightly packaged intellectual
incongruity from someone who can form a complete sentence.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

mx And just about everyone of them has suffered with interminable
mx internal conflicts as a result.

Of course, having English as a common language prevented our Civil
War. War Between the States. Whatever.

That's hilarious!
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Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Hamish (for whom American English is definitely foreign :-))

So, let me get this straight:

You're saying that Spanish is *not* a foreign language in the United
States, simply because a large portion of people here are originally
from Spanish-speaking countries?

By that definition, German is not a foreign language in Iowa and
Wisconsin. Neither is Italian. Or Irish.

Or have you come up with some intellectually gymnastic limitation on
your theory, like "it's only not a foreign language if the speakers
have not been here more than 'x' generations..."?

Honestly, you guys are hilarious!
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Um, sorry to burst your bubble, Jose, but Spanish is a foreign
language in the United States.

Um, sorry to burst your bubble, Jay, but Spanish is not a foreign
language in the United States.

and my ancestors learned the native tongue --
English -- as rapidly as possible...

Make me laugh. English is most assuredly =not= the native tongue of
this country.

I don't care how much it costs -- *ANY* amount is absurd.

.... and how do you decide the validity of that argument? After all, it
can be applied to GA too. "Any amount of taxpayer dollars in support of
pleasure flying is absurd."

Jose
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Jay Honeck wrote:
But you don't mind using tax dollars to post your Hispanic-bashing, eh?
Because, make no mistake, Usenet was created with tax dollars.


Now I'm "Hispanic bashing" because I don't want my tax dollars
squandered translating the *weather reports* into Spanish?

Check your temperature, CJ. You may have picked up an unusual strain
of malaria, as you seem to be feverish....

He may be infected with a variant (or mutant) strain of 'political
correctness virus' that's been going around the whole country.

Could they even read it? The consensus
was that most of them were illiterate in Spanish, which was eye
opening to me as we had a fair bit of money invested in software that
could spit things out for printing in either language....
Food for thought.

Whether they could read it or not is completely irrelevant to
government bureaucrats. They will always find a "need" and go for it,
full blast, with no regard to cost, whether it's useful or not.
Common sense is never applied, at any level, because in their world
our taxes are merely "pretend money".
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Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"