Do you speack a foreign language?......besides Engish hahahahahah...........V

[Ponce]

In CA English is now a foreign language......anyway, I visited another site where they were talking about this issue and this is what happened to me......because I look like a Americano, white skin with green eyes, people don't know that I am 50% Cuban. I went to Tijuana, long ago, and I wanted to buy something.....one clerk to the other one "Damn gringo, how much did we pay for it?" the other clerk "Our cost was of $4.50" first clerk "Then charge him $12.50" first clerk "OK"......to me "Sir the cost is of $12.50" me "Muy bien amigo, te doy $6.50, si lo quieres" = "Very will my friend, I'll give you $6.50, if you want it"...........hahahahahah they didn't know what to say, first clerk "You speak Spanish very well, where are you from?" me "Bueno, no soy gringo, soy huero de Cuba" = "Well, I am not a gringo, I am white from Cuba".........they gave me the product for $5.50 and a hand shake.

As I was known in my town back in Cuba......the little American.

Anything like this ever happens to you?

V

[Dogman]

In reply to the o/p

Yes, Thai! And half assed Mex! Understand more than can speak.

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[palani]

Morse
Baudot
Ascii

[Dogman]

Morse
Baudot
Ascii

Have them covered also! The first more so than the others, tho, old teletype by radio was fun. Ki-nm!

Grin!

[Libertytree]

Well, we've all learned to speak Poncenese :)

[Dogman]

Well, we've all learned to speak Poncenese :) That aint no cuddy shit my friend, Ponciees is what air is to others, and lets hope his head does not swell bigger than it is... Must be way past than 100 hat size!

That is texas hat size.

[Ponce]

Not everyone can be a God....by the way, my first MOS was 053, radio teletype with Morse Code = Ft Gordon.

My problem was that in Cuba I was an American till I opened my mouth and in the US I also was an American till I opened my mouth, I had two countries and yet........I had none.....I feel like the Flying (Cuban) Duchman.

V

[Dogman]

Not everyone can be a God....by the way, my first MOS was 053, radio teletype with Morse Code = Ft Gordon.

My problem was that in Cuba I was an American till I opened my mouth and in the US I also was an American till I opened my mouth, I had two countries and yet........I had none.....I feel like the Flying (Cuban) Duchman.

V

Some of those old machines were still kicking, in my time, mechinacal beasts, then the evolution, hit and miss into electronic. Know a old ham operator, that still has a couple of the old school units! They are a sound that few in this world would understand, nor appreciate.

Think typewrighter on steroids, tho most reading this never a typewrighter badspelling.

In the day, by wire, they were the only link to the outside world, as a young kid worked at a newspaper! Small town, but had the same info as everyone else!

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[Libertytree]

The hell of it is....I can read it but I can't speak a word of it.

[palani]

Some of those old machines were still kicking

High school shop project was to build a TU. I hooked it up to a model 15 TTY and could copy Reuters on shortwave as well as ham.

[Glass]

I can barely speak english but I've been listening to some spanish language CDs. I'm hoping I'll be able to find my suitcase before too long.

For some reason I figured spanish would be good to know and there is a bit of cross over with italian... a lil bit. Chinese would probably be a good thing to know as well given where I am situated. Or Thai perhaps.

[Dogman]

I can barely speak english but I've been listening to some spanish language CDs. I'm hoping I'll be able to find my suitcase before too long.

For some reason I figured spanish would be good to know and there is a bit of cross over with italian... a lil bit. Chinese would probably be a good thing to know as well given where I am situated. Or Thai perhaps.


You speak mostly truth, learn mandarin Chinese, which is the major tong,

I learned my Spanish, by living near, being bought up by a no English nanny, and one of the in my opinion language cd's Rosetta stone disks, which to this day defy me copying it to keep the original safe.

Being Multilingual is a good thing today and better if you act like you do not understand and act ignorant. Had a hoot in the past, let them talk their crap and always defy them in their exceptions, up into the last hour before leveing and then let them have it plane as day cussing them out in their language, being fluent while doing so.

Hoot!

[Santa]

I speak Spanglish, Froglatin, Ebonics, and Southern Americanish.

[singular_me]

nothing remarkable here as in EU 3 languages are necessary to find a job....
french, dutch, english.... intermediate level german

learning spanish as my next trip will be either ecuador or peru