Thread: Philly cheese steak king wins battle over please speak english sign

English is only a majority language in the US (for the time being). It is not the official language, and I'm it never ever will be. Why? Because the US is an immigrant nation, and luckily that fact hasn't been forgotten; if you're tired of pressing one for English, I would recommend trying to learn a second language. It's much more difficult that pressing a button.

Good God, the fact that anyone could be offended by a business offering services in more than one language is borderline sociopathic. You know what? If a company is capable of offering that service, then I'm sure they have plenty more customers that will take up the slack left by your refusal, and someday, when you are locked in your house with no water, electricity or phone because you are offended by the horrible, multicultural state of the world today, maybe a nice Spanish speaking person will be nice enough to interpret for you so you can order a pizza.

Originally Posted by JimR

English is only a majority language in the US (for the time being). It is not the official language, and I'm it never ever will be. Why? Because the US is an immigrant nation, and luckily that fact hasn't been forgotten; if you're tired of pressing one for English, I would recommend trying to learn a second language. It's much more difficult that pressing a button.

Good God, the fact that anyone could be offended by a business offering services in more than one language is borderline sociopathic. You know what? If a company is capable of offering that service, then I'm sure they have plenty more customers that will take up the slack left by your refusal, and someday, when you are locked in your house with no water, electricity or phone because you are offended by the horrible, multicultural state of the world today, maybe a nice Spanish speaking person will be nice enough to interpret for you so you can order a pizza.

Be careful throwing such big words around Jim, you might hurt yourself, besides which you suggested that at least half of us who posted have no consciense (that is within the scope of the word "sociopath"). Also, you misrepresented the problem that many of us have with this. Its not that we have a problem with other languages being used or restaraunts using more than 1 or 2 languages if they so choose. The main problem is with people coming to America and expecting America to change to suit them rather than making an effort to make the change to fit in! Also, I believe the restaurant owner, right or wrong, should have the right to display the sign and serve whomever he pleases, and refuse to serve whomever he pleases! His actions will affect his business and he will reap the benifits or suffer the consequences accordingly

Originally Posted by JMS

Be careful throwing such big words around Jim, you might hurt yourself, besides which you suggested that at least half of us who posted have no consciense (that is within the scope of the word "sociopath"). Also, you misrepresented the problem that many of us have with this. Its not that we have a problem with other languages being used or restaraunts using more than 1 or 2 languages if they so choose. The main problem is with people coming to America and expecting America to change to suit them rather than making an effort to make the change to fit in! Also, I believe the restaurant owner, right or wrong, should have the right to display the sign and serve whomever he pleases, and refuse to serve whomever he pleases! His actions will affect his business and he will reap the benifits or suffer the consequences accordingly

Don't talk to me about big words, Mark. I know more big words in more languages than you can guess, and I can usually spell them right.

If you (that's the non-specific you) are offended by the fact that a business offers a multi-linguistic service to others that have absolutely no relationship to yourself, to the extent that you refuse to give that business your custom, then I would say that you are in territory bordering on criteria 1, 4, 6 and very possibly 7 (though I don't know how persistent the problem is) of the ICD-10 criteria for dissocial personality disorder, often equated with sociopathy. If you are so upset by the thought that people in "your" country are being accomodated in their own language that you hang up on a phone call that you yourself made, I am comfortable in saying that you have an emotional problem. If you disagree, I'm comfortable with that. I hope you are, too.

OK, that's it, I have to stop reading anything on the internet that is not directly shaving related, it's just too depressing.