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TalkingDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-02-10 09:05 AM
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FaceBook Group: YOU came to OUR country, You learn OUR language
Reading this, who thinks this was started by a group of 14 year olds? Seriously....

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panader0 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-02-10 09:09 AM
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1. Sioux? Algonquin? Seminole?
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nc4bo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-02-10 09:13 AM
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3. Thank-you. I think they've forgotten about that.
The ignorance is astounding.
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City Lights Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-02-10 09:19 AM
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5. !
:thumbsup:
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Bolo Boffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-02-10 09:21 AM
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7. +1
Why aren't these assholes speaking Cherokee?
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-02-10 09:11 AM
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2. America! Fuck yeah!
And I'm sure that each and every one of our military personnel and every contractor in Iraq speaks fluent Arabic, right?

Ooh listen - crickets!
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pipi_k Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-02-10 09:17 AM
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4. And what "language" are THEY speaking, I ask...
I love technology as much as the next person, but unfortunately, it's created a whole generation of mental midgets...at least as far as literacy goes.

I don't even waste my time trying to figure that shit out unless it's a real text message on my cell phone. It doesn't belong in everyday life.

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HughBeaumont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-02-10 09:21 AM
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6. What's a "crub"?
Sorry, I don't speak thumb or stylus tap.
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TalkingDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-02-10 09:45 AM
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9. That one confused me too. But then I'm old and unhip.
Of course I was unhip when I was young too, so that's nothing new......

Terminal Geek.
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pipi_k Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-02-10 10:01 AM
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11. Looking at the context, I would have to say
that the person likely meant "Holy crud"

But who knows....I'm old and unhip too.

;)
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nyc 4 Biden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-02-10 09:22 AM
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8. dumb and proud.
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tilsammans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-02-10 09:45 AM
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10. The posters are railing about not using English, yet . . .
. . . every single post there is barely literate. :wtf:
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madmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-02-10 10:13 AM
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12. A "friend" of mine on face book posted a link to that, I asked her the
very same thing, "would that be Cherokee, Sioux or what?" This was quite some time ago, she has yet to respond.
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ChoppinBroccoli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-02-10 10:51 AM
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13. I Saw A Similar Thing On A Friend's FB Page
The one she had on her FB page was something to the effect of, "I shouldn't HAVE to press 1 for English!!!" or some such nonsense. To which I responded that I heartily agreed. I told her I believe that if we're going to make English our official language, then we should make it mandatory that all Americans SPEAK English. And I want the penalties for NOT speaking English to be criminal in nature. I want to see jails FILLED to the brim with people who don't know the difference between "your" and "you're." I want an entire prison filled with JUST the people who don't know the difference between "there," "they're," and "their." And another one for people who don't know when to use "less" and when to use "fewer." And then there's the people who will get locked up for using phrases like "could of" and "should of." And don't even get me started on the CHAIN of prisons in every State that will be chock-full of people who don't know how to spell or punctuate correctly. Hey, you guys want English to be America's official language. I'm all about giving people what they want. And all I ask in return is that we start locking up every single person who DOESN'T speak CORRECT English. The streets are about to get a LOT less crowded at rush hour, folks. I'm all for making English the official language.

Murrka would be better if'n we didn't have to listen to dem-dere ferners speakin' all their gobbley-gook no-how, ding-dong-dangit! Why can't all you gawl-durn ferners speak Murrkin like the resta us'ns does, anyways? Dagnab ferners, anyway.
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nc4bo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-02-10 10:53 AM
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14. LMAO @ this!!
Sweet response.
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