Iowa Aviation Weather...en Espanol

Jay Honeck writes:

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?

Yes.

One nice thing I can say about France is that everything is in French. If you
immigrate to France, you must learn French. Nobody publishes anything in your
language for your convenience, and if you demand that others do things in your
own language, you'll be laughed at and/or ridiculed.

Step one in moving to France for me was to become proficient in French. I've
never asked anyone in France to do things in English for me. I fill out all
government forms in French. I speak only French at government offices. Never
a word in English.

This being so, I'm perfectly placed and qualified to say that every immigrant
can and must learn the national language. Any immigrant who doesn't is lazy
and unlikely to ever properly assimilate into his adopted society. Thus,
anyone who immigrates to the U.S. and doesn't learn to do everything in
English can do everyone a favor by returning to wherever he came from.

As for people who are born in the U.S. and don't speak English, their parents
are incompetent and are preventing them from ever fully functioning or
succeeding in U.S. society.

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One nice thing I can say about France is that everything is in French. If you
immigrate to France, you must learn French. Nobody publishes anything in your
language for your convenience, and if you demand that others do things in your
own language, you'll be laughed at and/or ridiculed.

At last -- a reason to admire the French! I *knew* they had to have
some redeeming qualities...

;-)

Seriously, I find it appalling that our supposedly cash-strapped
National Weather Service is wasting untold oodles of taxpayer money on
bilingual weather forecasting. Who in the hell authorized THAT
expenditure?

First of all, take a look at that webpage. As if ANYONE can't figure
out what the weather forecast is simply by looking at the pictograms?
Why did we need to pay someone to translate it into a foreign
language?

I find what's happening to our society -- at taxpayer expense -- to be
more than a little aggravating.
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Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Seriously, I find it appalling that our supposedly cash-strapped
National Weather Service is wasting untold oodles of taxpayer money on
bilingual weather forecasting.

I doubt it's much. How many phrases do you think are involved? Google
could probably do it.

And they did save some money on one phrase. I think Wednesday evening
was supposed to be "cold". That's the new Spanish word for "Frio".

As if ANYONE can't figure
out what the weather forecast is simply by looking at the pictograms?

=That= is the real problem. All those pictograms instead of real
weather information. Pretty soon we'll be looking at a forecast that
consists of happy faces and sad faces, and dire warnings to stay inside
because it's dark at night.

Jose
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