Animals & Nature1 min ago
How Many Languages?
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Have received today letter about new wheelie bins for London Borough of Hounslow from next month. Additional info in 15 languages. Arabic. Bengali. Bulgarian. Burmese. Farsi. Gujarati. Hindi. Polish. Punjabi. Romanian. Sinhalese. Somali. Syhleti. Tamil and Urdu.
Why are there so many people here unwilling to learn English? Where do people speaking Syhleti from?
How many languages in your area? Is 15 a record?
Why are there so many people here unwilling to learn English? Where do people speaking Syhleti from?
How many languages in your area? Is 15 a record?
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Nice eclectic bunch of folks living in Hounslow, straight of the plane!!!!
21:15 Fri 18th Dec 2015
Mikey
//I think the Council are just trying to be inclusive....not sure what is wrong with that ?//
Yes they are. Very friendly of Hounslow Council to accomodate people who do not speak English in an English speaking country. All the extra interpreters fees and printing costs to accomodate the same text in 15 different languages.
I do not suppose you might expect a similar helpful English Text information leaflet in Somali about where to deposit your refuse in that country. I doubt the Somali tax payers would have a wheelie bin let alone a leaflet telling you where to dump your crap!!
//I think the Council are just trying to be inclusive....not sure what is wrong with that ?//
Yes they are. Very friendly of Hounslow Council to accomodate people who do not speak English in an English speaking country. All the extra interpreters fees and printing costs to accomodate the same text in 15 different languages.
I do not suppose you might expect a similar helpful English Text information leaflet in Somali about where to deposit your refuse in that country. I doubt the Somali tax payers would have a wheelie bin let alone a leaflet telling you where to dump your crap!!
Ideas are changing about languages
the idea was to welcome and communicate in their own language
but now there is recognition that it is a means of maintaining social isolation - if someone can only speak Sylhet then they cant vote kind of thing
whenever I hear jabbering in a hosspital I think to myself Jesus would I go to a French hospital with a serious disease and expect to be treated in English ?
the idea was to welcome and communicate in their own language
but now there is recognition that it is a means of maintaining social isolation - if someone can only speak Sylhet then they cant vote kind of thing
whenever I hear jabbering in a hosspital I think to myself Jesus would I go to a French hospital with a serious disease and expect to be treated in English ?