Why can't people be taught proper english as thier second language

[SARGE]

I dunno about the rest of you immigrants but I continually laugh my arse off when kiwis pop out to the local milk products manufacturing plant to buy a pack of smokes? WTF?

Seriously folks a Dairy is a big factory with 'Fonterra' written on the side.

10 smokes and a 40

[SARGE]

blah blah blah blah blah wank wank wank wank wank

Fuck up.

SM.

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hIdI5NUEk4[/YOUTUBE]

[shcabbeh]

You will probably find that these organisations have some sort of non-discriminatory equal opportunities-type policy that prevents them from discriminating against people they hire and then in terms of how they are deployed. Unfortunately they haven't then done a reality check of this policy against their desired customer service experience.

Yeah, it's the same with Pizza Hut. Most of our drivers are OK, but there are some that are particularly bad with customer service (mostly in the Tauranga and Christchurch areas).

The only thing that'd change it is if there was a public outcry and let's face it, not enough people care that much about fast food for that to happen.

Profit is profit. Besides, most people are scared of coming off as racist.

[terbang]

Get Dover, Boomer and Vicki at the pub. Funny as fuck, but can't understand a word they say.

Know the feeling we spent a year in Newcastle! However on the subject of languages, I agree that Kiwi's should speak two or more languages. One of the difficulties I found when learning another language was the fear of screwing it up and making a dick of yerself. When I was living in Switzerland the germanics there would allways sternly correct you when yo didn't get it right, thus prohibiting the learning process. Where it was the opposite in Indonesia as they were really encouraging of those giving their tongue a try and let you learn by your own mistakes over time. The odd smirk told me I wasn't getting it right, encouraging me to ask. The asian way versus the german way perhaps, but needless to say my Indonesian flourished in leaps and bounds compared to what my German had.

[scracha]

I appreciate the fact that many new comers to NZ take some time to come to grips with the Kiwi language but who is the idiot that keeps giving them the job of taking orders at KFC and BK drive throughs?

I'm glad you said Kiwi language. Maybe they should give them a test in how to speak poor English in an awsumley speeshally feshion bro.

[scumdog]

I'm glad you said Kiwi language. Maybe they should give them a test in how to speak poor English in an awsumley speeshally feshion bro.

That last bit would have to be one of the more accurate assesments of the NZ accent, most words with the letter 'a' in them (more so as a first letter) could easily have an 'e' instead without affecting the NZ pronounciation.

"Ectuelly Oi nevah aks to borrow your ex for this efternoon, it was moi brotha Elen thet wanted it"

It's bad enough when axe comes out as 'ex' but 'aks' for ask? Give me strength!!

[onearmedbandit]

I nkow I had difficulty in Australia when I was over tere. Not as much as Japan though.

[Marmoot]

why is it asians and others i'm sure learn a language and leave out crucial bits....

this is from nzdating, dnt give me shit about it cus i really dnt care what u lot think of me most of the time it's, 430 am i can't sleep and i'm grumpy so RAR!

anyways this is lily's profile...dear god...

I was a nurse in China,and worked in hospital ten years. My lifestyle is fit and healthy. I love sporting and outdoor activites.
I'm a honest,gentle,caring and understanding woman,interests in spend time with my darling to travel,dancing,singing,take picture,going out for dinner,watching a DVD in home. I really enjoy to look after my darling and cook for my family


hmmm maybe i could make a good little housewife out of her?

Her English is equal if not better than yours.

[roogazza]

Really? They teach it to you for 5 years now? But what the? It's a dead language?!!? It's like teaching us how to grind grain by hand... a neat trick I'm sure, but of zero use to anyone. There's a limited amount of time to be teaching kids when they're at their most receptive, and we waste it teaching them that?!!

I thought we were still writing it up for them ? What is it, make it up as you go along ??? Gaz.

[skidMark]

Get Dover, Boomer and Vicki at the pub. Funny as fuck, but can't understand a word they say.

You can never quite understand what a pikey is saying

It's not english, it's not irish. It's just pikish.

[skidMark]

Oh! Sneaking it in, just before the deadline ... skidMark's astoundingly strong entry for Troll of the Month for June 2007. Well done.

Dave

you observe wisely young grasshopper

[Swoop]

I'm glad you said Kiwi language. Maybe they should give them a test in how to speak poor English in an awsumley speeshally feshion bro.

Did I detect a hint of rising inflection at the end of that???
Well done!

[idb]

Haven't travelled through a non-english country yet, but when I do I hope people treat me kindly . . .

Heh!
I have recently come back from a tour through Western Europe.
Before I left home I took some time to learn a bit of Italian and I thought that I'd get by on my remnants of schoolboy French (I also bought a couple of phrase-books)....as for English well....there's no English-speaking countries north of the Equator anyway.....

My fragile ego was dealt regular blows when, having said nothing more than "hello" in my best version of whatever language I was trying to communicate in, the foreign-type person would almost invariably talk back to me in English.

[idb]

Dyslexia. Had that problem myself when I was younger but it can be overcome.

Agoraphobia is in many ways not unlike Dyslexia. Where Dyslexia is a left right thing, Agoraphobia can manifest itself through an up down problem. Both are caused by spatial disorientation. Don't have these problems now but once I did. Not nice.

Skyryder

Hmmmm don't be so sure....I've seen the way you dress yourself....

[idb]

At the risk of high-jacking SM's thought-provoking thread I have a burning question.

If Polynesian languages had no written form, why, when the clever Colonials came to put them down on paper did they not simply spell them phonetically?
Why is 'wh' said as 'f' in Maori and why is a 'c' in Fijian said as 'th'?!
Why not write Fangarei and Rokothoko....hmmmmmmmmmm????!!!!