Iowa Aviation Weather...en Espanol

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.
--
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
--
Humans are pack animals. Above all things, they have a deep need to
follow something, be it a leader, a creed, or a mob. Whosoever fully
understands this holds the world in his hands.
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On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 20:53:24 -0500, 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

Vince, crawl back under your rock.
Daveb

Interesting point. Is there evidence to support the statement that
those here who only speak Spanish can't read that language?

On Feb 12, 8:40 pm, Mxsmanic wrote:
Michelle P writes:
This is the last straw. I am writing my congress person.
This has gone too far. Our language is English learn it or leave.

It is interesting to note that, statistically, of all the Spanish-speaking
people who _cannot_ read and write English in the U.S., most are also
illiterate in Spanish as well. So putting a Web page in Spanish accomplishes
nothing at all--anyone literate in Spanish in the U.S. is also likely to be
literate in English, and any Spanish-speaking person who can't read English
probably can't read Spanish, either.

--
Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.

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.

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

No. Finally government begins to respond to citizen needs and all you
do is bitch about it.
--
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
Groucho Marx

"Tony" == Tony writes:

Tony Interesting point. Is there evidence to support the
Tony statement that those here who only speak Spanish can't read
Tony that language?

No. Just more mxmaniac BS.

--
I've been around so long, I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin.
Groucho Marx

"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

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