| 6/14/2008 3:28:05 AM | Speak English please | |
bigman76
Suncook, NH
age: 23
| Why cant it be a law that you need to have customer service reps who are fluint in English? I had to hang up on someone (who was prolly in India) because I truely could not understand them. As soon as they come out with a phone that can punch people in the face, im so getting it!!!
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| 6/14/2008 3:34:24 AM | Speak English please | |
coppermare
Grady, AL
age: 48
| Complain, complain, complain. Your right, and they are taking our jobs. I worked for a call center one time that tried sending our company to Canada and shutting us down. They couldnt send our mail there though (magazine subscriptions). Another one sent it to India or somewhere and the customers got nuts. Same complaints as you except they stirred it up with they didnt want their info (credit cards) sent to third world countries. NASA happened to be a subscriber..lol They were pissed!!
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| 6/14/2008 3:53:24 AM | Speak English please | |
bigman76
Suncook, NH
age: 23
| I understand the English isnt this countries national language, but dont speak with such a heavey indian accent that nobody can understand you...It was like talking to Apu, only he was about 4 times over the leagal limit!!! It would be like me trying to do customer service for a Spanish speaking country
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| 6/14/2008 3:58:01 AM | Speak English please | |
corbinsgaga
Wooster, OH
age: 47
| I so hear you.....that is one of my biggest pet peeves........I automatically ask for someone who I can understand now, I don't even bother trying to decipher the broken english or whatever the hell language they're trying to speak...
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| 6/14/2008 5:16:16 AM | Speak English please | |
ocean_spray
Maricopa, AZ
age: 55
| Isn't amazing that we have to go and pay to learn another language...but all the forieners can come and learn english for free...All can come to USA become an American but we cannot go to another country to beome a chinese, Italian, a Greek, etc etc..( wink ) Sea
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| 6/14/2008 5:45:35 AM | Speak English please | |
headstart68
Evansville, IN
age: 40
| I keep expecting to see Spanish listed as a required course in American schools. A lot of store signs are already printed in English with Spanish at the bottom. We're OK until the Spanish is on top and the English is at the bottom...or simply gone...scary!
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| 6/14/2008 6:29:36 AM | Speak English please | |
eightinchbend
Gadsden, AL
age: 44
| It is a point of contentious debate, but we are no longer an isolated society; we have long been in the process of referring to life in global terms.
Something to consider: I am not denying there is an issue with foreign nationals ability to speak English fluently and clearly in a manner we can understand, but do we as Americans have our own issues with the English language? Take spelling, word usage, and sentence structure for examples; are we alphabetically and grammatically correct? Do each of us have the ability to identify the eight parts of speech? When we post to the forums, why do we misspell, or fail to write complete sentences?
Does our ability to speak English automatically validate us as literate in English?
Over 40 million adult Americans cannot read. Nearly 50 million are rated at a Fourth, or Fifth grade reading level. One in four high school students drop-out. Of those who graduate high school, many actually have an Eighth grade education. Out of 500,000 basic entry-level positions applied for in the city of New York, 172,000 persons failed qualification tests due to poor, or incorrect useage of the English language. All of these people are adults. How many of these adults read bed-time stories to their children? How many adults are not able to assist their children with elementary level homework assignments?
Additionally, the advent of Microsoft Word Spell Check has only served to add to the current problem; it is not a faultess system, and while its programming produces correct alternatives to a misspelled word, it cannot offer proper enunciation, nor can it rightfully indicate if the use of a word, or phrase is proper. Beyond this are considerations in proper punctuation; period, question mark, apostrophe, colon, semicolon....each of these and more have specific uses that are far too often incorrectly applied.
Texting: An entire dictionary of abreviated words exists within Cyberspace, and millions have been seduced into such practices of employing these abreviations in hard-copy presentations. It is to the point where these "short-spellings", or "sound-based" spellings are actually viewed as proper.
I think if we are honest about how we have abused the English language, we will realise our demands that others use and respect English are entirely out of place.
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| 6/14/2008 6:50:40 AM | Speak English please | |
craftygirl002
Tacoma, WA
age: 40
| I made a phone call the other day and the recording actually said "press 1 for Spanish, press 2 for English...". 
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| 6/14/2008 6:53:15 AM | Speak English please | |
daddyduck
Splendora, TX
age: 54
| I keep expecting to see Spanish listed as a required course in American schools. A lot of store signs are already printed in English with Spanish at the bottom. We're OK until the Spanish is on top and the English is at the bottom...or simply gone...scary!
Most schools pay extra if you speak spanish, so who is behind all this BS? Those who want to get enough foreigners here to put them in political office and let them rule no matter what it does to our country. Don't take much to figure it out.
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| 6/14/2008 7:32:02 AM | Speak English please | |
catetinab
Clinton Township, MI
age: 36
| This is ridiculous,I agree!
I will not do business with anyone that doesnT speak PERFECT English! I hear heavy accents,then I hang up the phone. I have done it to Realtors,bankers,Doctors etc....
Speak English or go back to your country!!!!!!!
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| 6/14/2008 8:18:23 AM | Speak English please | |
wolfi
Albuquerque, NM
age: 43
| Que?
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| 6/14/2008 9:30:32 AM | Speak English please | |
usakindatheart
Overton, TX
age: 48
| because the India and Philippines phone staff, gets paid 45cents an hour...
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| 6/14/2008 9:40:06 AM | Speak English please | |
jp_and_3
Bethlehem, NH
age: 51
| Its not that the offshore/foreign customer support people don't know english, its that they can't speak it without such a heavy foreign accent and we can't understand them!
If I was a good enough customer to buy a companies product from their english speaking salesperson, then I want the same english speaking company rep there to answer my damn questions when I have a problem!! 
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| 6/14/2008 11:19:45 AM | Speak English please | |
headstart68
Evansville, IN
age: 40
| Skipped Finance class once. The professor was from Pakistan, and his accent was so thick that his words were barely English.
So there I sat in the main hallway, looking over my Finance chapter, when somebody tipped my book. I looked up into the Finance professor's face, and he asked me why I wasn't in class.
I told him I was having trouble understanding the material.
He smiled and told me he'd see me in class, and he did.
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| 6/14/2008 12:42:13 PM | Speak English please | |
maniacmassager
Lawrence, MA
age: 42
| In any service industry, every employee should speak clear understandable english or you shouldnt be hired! 
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