Iowa Aviation Weather...en Espanol

"DB" == DaveB DaveB writes:

DB Vince, crawl back under your rock. Daveb

That is the rock called the Midwest?
--
If you're ever shipwrecked on a tropical island and you don't
know how to speak the natives' language, just say "Poppy-oomy." I
bet it means something.
- Jack Handey

Vince, crawl back under your rock.
Daveb

I never crawl out from under my rock to criticize another poster's
language skills unless that poster has first criticized another
person's language skills. That makes him, or her, fair game.

vince norris

vincent p. norris wrote:
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 00:43:21 GMT, Michelle P
wrote:


Jay Honeck wrote:

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



Yes,
This is the last straw. I am writing my congress person.
This has gone too far. Our language is English learn it or leave.

Michelle (****ed)


Well, Michelle, why don't you learn it? That posting is hardly a model
of good writing.

vince norris
I never said I was good at it. I do know the language.

I never said I was good at it. I do know the language.

Your posting implies you care about it. If that's the case, wouldn't
you rather be good at it?

Do you try to be a good pilot, or merely know how to fly?

vince norris

In article .com,
"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?

In what sense is Spanish a foreign language in the US? It's the dominant
language in the part of the US I live in...

Hamish

On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 21:05:44 -0800, Hamish Reid wrote
(in article
):

In article .com,
"Jay Honeck" wrote:

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/forecast/Map....x=121&map.y=1
25

(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?

In what sense is Spanish a foreign language in the US? It's the dominant
language in the part of the US I live in...

Hamish

Yes, and it was here a long time before English was, too.

The US has never had an 'official' language and it does not need one now. I
don't need some government regulator telling me what language to speak.

--
Waddling Eagle
World Famous Flight Instructor

C J Campbell wrote:
The US has never had an 'official' language and it does not need one
now. I don't need some government regulator telling me what language
to speak.

While I would agree with that general sentiment, the FARs require that you
be able to read, speak, write and understand the English language before
you can be issued a pilot certificate.

The US has never had an 'official' language and it does not need one now. I
don't need some government regulator telling me what language to speak.

You (and others like you) are dooming us to Balkanization.

Without a common language, no country can long survive.

But that's beside the original point. Who in the HELL authorized the
creation of a foreign language webpage by our supposedly cash-strapped
National Weather Service?

Apparently they have money to burn, and we shouldn't be concerned with
their budget in the future.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 04:43:49 -0800, Jay Honeck wrote
(in article .com):

The US has never had an 'official' language and it does not need one now. I
don't need some government regulator telling me what language to speak.

You (and others like you) are dooming us to Balkanization.

Without a common language, no country can long survive.

Nonsense. Plenty of countries without a common language have been around for
a lot longer than we have. Even the US has never had a common language and
for part of its history English was a minority language.

You keep insisting that Spanish is a foreign language. In what way is it a
foreign language that English is not?


--
Waddling Eagle
World Famous Flight Instructor

C J Campbell writes:

Plenty of countries without a common language have been around for
a lot longer than we have.

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

Even the US has never had a common language and
for part of its history English was a minority language.

Which part?

You keep insisting that Spanish is a foreign language. In what way is it a
foreign language that English is not?

It's not the predominant language in the U.S., so it's a foreign language
there.

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