Iowa Aviation Weather...en Espanol

On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:10:40 -0800, Peter Dohm wrote
(in article ):

Amazing. So in what country is Lakota a native language?

The country or area in which the natives speak it. But if it is not the
predominant language in the country, it's still a foreign language.

There is no definition of "foreign" that makes it synonymous with "non-
dominant". You've simply added a new definition to an existing word for
personal reasons.

According to Wikipedia, Lakota is one of the Sioux languages.

BTW, this is a great example of what irritates me, and possibly others with
regard to MX.



The Filipinos have a word that is perfect for that sort of thing:

Nakakapagbabagabag. The root word is "baba" meaning "down" or "lower." Thus,
getting onto an elevator one might use the query marker, "ba" in this way:
"Ba baba?" (Going down?) and the affirmative reply might be "Baba baba,"
indicating down and down -- emphasis to say yes it really is going down.
Sounds like Bah-BAH, like sheep. :-)

Adding suffixes and prefixes to the root word changes it to a sort of verb
that implies it is a feeling being imposed on you, states that the listener
is doing this, and that the listener is doing it to you. Literally, "You are
doing something that makes me feel a little low," but the intended meaning
is:

"Something you are doing is annoying me."

Heh, heh. Tagalog is very expressive. I like this word. Now, if only I could
pronounce it properly. Filipinos like to say it for no reason other than that
it is a tongue-twister. It is pronounced like this:

nah-KAH-kah-pahg-bah-BAHG-ah-bahg

In Taglish, considered a dialect of English rather than Tagalog, the root
word would be English, but it would have all the Tagalog construction, as in
"Nakakapagsickbagabag," meaning "you are doing something that is making me
throw up," a fine phrase to use on student pilots. :-)

Now you have something to mutter under your breath, and nobody but you and a
Filipino will have any idea what you just said. :-) And you could claim it is
English, because it is!

--
Waddling Eagle
World Famous Flight Instructor

This is purely anecdotal, but so is everything else on this thread.
Where I used to work in Raleigh, North Carolina, we had a fairly heavy
immigrant Spanish speaking only population that we served. We had in
house 24/7 interpreters (as opposed to translators, there is a
difference I learned), and I asked one of them about the paperwork we
handed out that was in Spanish. 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.

Ryan in Madison

You left the Triangle for Madison -- how can we trust your judgement
in other things? You probably had to buy a snow blower.




On Feb 13, 10:25 pm, wrote:
This is purely anecdotal, but so is everything else on this thread.
Where I used to work in Raleigh, North Carolina, we had a fairly heavy
immigrant Spanish speaking only population that we served. We had in
house 24/7 interpreters (as opposed to translators, there is a
difference I learned), and I asked one of them about the paperwork we
handed out that was in Spanish. 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.

Ryan in Madison

On Feb 14, 4:53 am, "Tony" wrote:
You left the Triangle for Madison -- how can we trust your judgement
in other things? You probably had to buy a snow blower.


OUCH, but touche!
Yes I did, I'm originally from WI. Loved the weather down there in NC
but it wasn't "home". Bought my first airplane, an Ercoupe, and kept
it at Horace Williams (IGX) in Chapel Hill. Had a K-6 with the North
Carolina Soaring Association.
But got offered a job at my alma mater that involved some flying and
couldn't pass it up.

No, I don't own a snow blower!

Flying on someone else's nickle AND working for UW is probably an
acceptable reason for leaving NC. If the offer included season tickets
to the football games it would have been a no brainer, but was
withdrawal from ACC basketball painful? Is there some form of 12 step
program to help?

You do know the Heels lost to the Hokies last night, don't you, or are
you so deep into Big 10 sports it didn't matter?

We flew commercial to Palm Beach last month, the return trip was via
Charlotte. We had a short layover there, just enough time to get a
bite to eat. We were served, beside our sandwiches, a deep fried
breaded dill pickle. We knew we were almost home!






On Feb 14, 11:32 am, wrote:
On Feb 14, 4:53 am, "Tony" wrote:

You left the Triangle for Madison -- how can we trust your judgement
in other things? You probably had to buy a snow blower.

OUCH, but touche!
Yes I did, I'm originally from WI. Loved the weather down there in NC
but it wasn't "home". Bought my first airplane, an Ercoupe, and kept
it at Horace Williams (IGX) in Chapel Hill. Had a K-6 with the North
Carolina Soaring Association.
But got offered a job at my alma mater that involved some flying and
couldn't pass it up.

No, I don't own a snow blower!

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