Ya' Know What Torques Me Off?

[Diggin It]

OK, lots of things do but .....


Pulling up to an ATM in my local small town and having to select "English" to use it. No one here speaks anything else that I know of. We don't even get many migrant workers here. Why not default to English with a menu to select other languages?

 

[mddorange]

Since you do not list in your profile where you are located, it is just a guess as to why they would do that.

All ATM's are programmed for the bank that owns them with what they want. It could be that more places where they have ATM's need another language first so that is how they set it up.

I know what you mean though as I have called some businesses and they ask you to select 1 or 2 to get English.

Probably won't be too much longer and Spanish will be the first language.

 

[Industrial Toys]

You should live in a country where everything by law has to have English and French writing. I have lived here for more then half a century and never met anyone that speaks french!

 

[Fuddy1952]

Everything here is in Spanish and English. Mexico...nada.
I had a year of Spanish in high school 50 years ago...we go to stores, anywhere in Mexico...I ask "?yo habla ingles?"..."muy poquito" is what they say.
The US makes concessions to foreigners, but not so when you cross the border.

 

[thepumpguysc]

WHY do they have BRAILLE at the "drive thru" ATM???

 

[Mendonsy]

WHY do they have BRAILLE at the "drive thru" ATM???

Probably because there are a lot of drivers on the road who drive like they were blind??

 

[4get gto]

WHY do they have BRAILLE at the "drive thru" ATM???

Always thought they were ice pick marks from trying to break open the machine...

 

[Jstpssng]

My grandmother got on a ship in Germany at the age of 14 to avoid a planned marriage. When she got here she learned the language. What really used to tick her off was when people wouldn't use the language of her adopted country. It must be a German thing... I was in a bar someplace in NY which was owned and operated by an older German couple who had immigrated from the Black Forest. Prominently displayed on the barroom wall was a plaque which read "Explain to me why I should press "1" for English."
I can understand why people want to remember their old culture; but if they move here they also need to either become part of this country, or go back where they came from.

 

[Steppenwolfe]

I can understand why people want to remember their old culture; but if they move here they also need to either become part of this country, or go back where they came from.

Exactly... and around here that would be New York and New Jersey...

 

[ruffdog]

After having some major hardships in life, having to press "english" is not something that comes close to getting me excited.