A Helpful Shopping Tip
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Steven Taylor | Tuesday, July 29, 2008 |
If you use the self-check at Walmart, pick the Spanish language option–that way the durn thing won’t talk to you and tell you every inane thing it thinks you need to do. Since what one needs to do is pretty easy to understand, the inability to read the screen doesn’t matter.
So see, for those who get annoyed at “Press 1 for English, Press 2 for Spanish” there is a silver lining after all.
About the Author: Steven is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Troy University in Alabama. He is the author of the book Voting Amid Violence: Electoral Democracy in Colombia, forthcoming from University of New England Press and the contributing editor on Colombia to the Library of Congress’s Handbook of Latin American Studies. He has his PhD from the University of Texas in Austin and a BA from the University of California at Irvine.
He does most of his blogging at PoliBlog, which he started in February 2003.
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Heh. Good point. I'd never have thought of that.
Maybe this will be the impetus needed to get everyone on Obama's foreign language skills bandwagon... but somehow I doubt it :)
If you use the self-check at Walmart, pick the Spanish language option–that way the durn thing won’t talk to you and tell you every inane thing it thinks you need to do.
Dude, you are not only "taking" the job of an American worker who would normally check you out, but you are also encouraging the coddling of immigrants.
That's two strikes against America---Shame!
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