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bassexpander
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Shapur
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 Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 8:43 pm Post subject: Re: Dallas cops cite drivers for not speaking English |
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| I wish you hadn't posted this because once the Anti English Spectrum racists get a hold of this idea.... |
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martypants
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Location: Ulsan, South Korea
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| A year or two ago there was a Korean couple in Dallas who drowned in a rain storm because they couldn't speak English-y. They called 9-1-1 (emergency) when they ran their car into deep water and no one understood them. I sometimes worry about that here and me not being able to speak Korean should I be in a similar pickle |
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mishlert
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Location: On the 3rd rock from the sun
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| Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 6:07 pm Post subject: |
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| martypants wrote: |
| A year or two ago there was a Korean couple in Dallas who drowned in a rain storm because they couldn't speak English-y. They called 9-1-1 (emergency) when they ran their car into deep water and no one understood them. I sometimes worry about that here and me not being able to speak Korean should I be in a similar pickle. |
There are emergency numbers for us to call:
Crime: 112
Fire and Medical: 119*
*Linked to Korea Travel Phone 1330, it provides foreign tourists with emergency rescue service.
Medical Referral: 1339
For more information, go to:
http://www.visitkorea.or.kr/enu/AK/AK_EN_1_5_9.jsp |
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Sleepy in Seoul
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Location: Going in ever decreasing circles until I eventually disappear up my own fundament - in NZ
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| ... Chief David Kunkle... "I was I guess surprised and stunned," Kunkle said. "We area very diverse community." |
I'm not sure that the Dallas Police chief can speak English. |
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mc_jc
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| This was why I made an honest effort to learn Korean- to communicate if there was an emergency as well as express what I want to say to people without having to rely too much on body language. |
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ReeseDog
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| Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 7:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Where I'm from in west Texas, you get strange looks if you don't speak Spanish. English be damned. |
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roadwork
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Location: Goin' up the country
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| Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 8:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Where I'm from in west Texas, you get strange looks if you don't speak Spanish. English be damned. |
Lubbock? |
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ReeseDog
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| Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 8:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Where I'm from in west Texas, you get strange looks if you don't speak Spanish. English be damned. |
Lubbock? |
Odessa. |
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cdninkorea
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Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 3:00 am Post subject: |
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| mishlert wrote: |
| martypants wrote: |
| A year or two ago there was a Korean couple in Dallas who drowned in a rain storm because they couldn't speak English-y. They called 9-1-1 (emergency) when they ran their car into deep water and no one understood them. I sometimes worry about that here and me not being able to speak Korean should I be in a similar pickle. |
There are emergency numbers for us to call:
Crime: 112 |
Good luck to you; there was a woman hit by a car outside my window last winter, so I called 112. I don't know any vocabulary for this kind of thing, but I decided it was important enough to try in English. So I called, and very slowly, said "Hi, I'd like to report an accident."
The police officer hung up on me!  |
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nathanrutledge
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| Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 5:25 pm Post subject: |
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Big deal. A simple mistake. Okay, federal law specifies that commercial drivers must speak English. It's in the police departments computerized ticketing system. A few officers made the mistake that it's ALL drivers must speak English and wrote tickets. It's probably a small fine, cheaper to pay than fight, so it has gone unnoticed. Sad, but it's not like they are executing people and there is no indication it was racially motivated. Considering how many people in Dallas don't speak English (45% according to the article), if it were racially motivated, I'm sure those 6 officers would have written more and been caught by now.
Simple mistake, move along, nothing to see here. |
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DWAEJIMORIGUKBAP
Joined: 28 May 2009
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| Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 5:36 pm Post subject: |
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| nathanrutledge wrote: |
Big deal. A simple mistake. Okay, federal law specifies that commercial drivers must speak English. It's in the police departments computerized ticketing system. A few officers made the mistake that it's ALL drivers must speak English and wrote tickets. It's probably a small fine, cheaper to pay than fight, so it has gone unnoticed. Sad, but it's not like they are executing people and there is no indication it was racially motivated. Considering how many people in Dallas don't speak English (45% according to the article), if it were racially motivated, I'm sure those 6 officers would have written more and been caught by now.
Simple mistake, move along, nothing to see here. |
WTF? That's messed up. |
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nathanrutledge
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| what's messed up? that 45% of residents in Dallas don't speak English as a first language (or at all, the article wasn't too clear on that) or that I think 37 tickets by 6 officers (out of over 3000) over 3 years in a city with a population of 1.3 million (Dallas proper, 6.3 million for the DFW area) isn't a racially motivated thing and is a simple mistake? |
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DWAEJIMORIGUKBAP
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| Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 6:45 pm Post subject: |
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| nathanrutledge wrote: |
| what's messed up? that 45% of residents in Dallas don't speak English as a first language (or at all, the article wasn't too clear on that) or that I think 37 tickets by 6 officers (out of over 3000) over 3 years in a city with a population of 1.3 million (Dallas proper, 6.3 million for the DFW area) isn't a racially motivated thing and is a simple mistake? |
The part I italicised and bolded. |
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nathanrutledge
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| Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 6:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Okay. Why? |
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