Bilingual Cereal boxes

Sadly in this area (South West Wales) there is hardly anyone who speaks the beautiful language.
Gwyneth

 

Cereal? Not a big deal. Would give me something to read in the morning. I used to live that had three languages printed on all products. It was an easy way to pick up a few words in a language other than English.

love,

Sopranette

 

The boxes should at least say

no abre con instrumento de puente

 

Here "puente" means a bridge. I would use the word "pico".

 

Cereal? What's cereal??

Sausage (and milk gravy), country ham (and red-eye gravy), biscuits, eggs, toast, milk, pancakes, (OK, my bride wants me to add bacon and "city ham" to my list. She also wants me to add cereal, but I'm not falling for that one, and I'm not adding coffee, either!), breakfast burritos, doughnuts, omelets, potatoes, fruit, water - stuff off that list is breakfast, but "Cereal?"

OOPS!! Almost forgot juice (apple, pineapple, peach, pear, tomato, grapefruit, prune, OJ - all of which I usually enjoy greatly), but you have to watch the quantity of many of them. To much apple juice probably won't hurt you; too much pineapple, pear, or peach juice can shoot your blood sugar way up, if you are a diabetice, as I am; tomato juice or grapefriut juice could give you a good case of heartburn; prune juice could give you "the r*ns"; but OJ could kill you.

Ed

 

Maybe the spelling is off (puenta?).

I see the phrase on every cardboard box at work "do not open with a sharp instrument".

 

There's no need for a bilingual America.
Schools shouldn't require students to learn anything but English.
Also, there's no need for bilingual phone messages or anything else.

If someone can't come here legally and learn the language they need to go back home.

 

Sure hope you never have to live in another country where the same attitude holds. It is such fun trying to figure out what is in a can or a box and all the printing is in Czech. :laugh:

Here is an example from my own experience. Last June I was working in the Baptist Seminary in Moscow, Russia. I wanted some peanut butter. It is hard to find there. Finally I spotted a jar, right size, right color, and there was a little picture on the label showing some green leaves and little yellowish-brown nuts. Well they looked like nuts to me. Anyway, I bought a jar, took it back to my room, got a piece of break, opened the jar .... and found it was mustard .... very strong mustard. So much for a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

 

Sure lets keep our kids ignorant and arrogant. There was a time in America where multiple languages were taught from a young age. The discipline of learning a new language is invaluable.

There is a need for bilingual phone messages and other things. Do you have any idea how difficult it is to leave your home culture, your family and all that is familiar to you to move to a different part of the world where every one not only talks different but has a different way of expressing themselves and a different philosophy?

This attitude is bothers me because it is un-American. The US has always welcomed people of other lands ( I agree they should come legally) and demonstrated patience as people learn their new language.

Go take a foreign language class. It will give you a better appreciation of the difficulty of what foreigners in the US experience.

 

In the countries I've lived in, there were no special accomidations for English only speakers. I had to learn the native language fast! Ironically, there were also a lot of people who could speak English, some fluently, pretty much everywhere I went. If they saw I was struggling to remember the correct word, they'd start speaking English to help me out. I noticed that people did appreciate that I was learning the language, and I was not expecting to have everything said to me in English only. Learning another language helps open up communications with other people all over the world.

love,

Sopranette

 

Who said anything about arrogance? Theere's no need to learn another language unless you need to learn enough, because you're vacationing in another country.

Nah.

It's un-American to say we need another language in this country.

If you want to be truthful. The true natives of this country were friendly, but they were lied to, their land stolen, and then they were killed. The ones who weren't were put into internment camps. But, people like to call them reservations, how convenient.

Unless I go to another country there isn't any need to. I know a few foreign words right now that's enough.