Learning a New Language

[MrBrown]

Brown can see various Ambos and Hospital staff looking sideways at Brown during handover, for example

"G'day, this is John, um, basically this bloke has been complaining of central gizzard pain for about the least two hours, lots of vomiting and radiating pain, when we got to him he looked pretty bloody crook, so far he has had 900ml of saline and 15 of morphine and he's a happpy lad"

 

[mgr22]

After the fifteenth or sixteenth time you see someone keep saying "No hable Ingles" and the suddenly start yelling in it when you make a comment or something they don't agree with, you start to become suspect of the claims of members of that group. It's like how I don't trust anything a cop tells me unless I know him personally.

Tolerance should have limits. Otherwise you get walked all over. If being tolerant in your book means surrendering to an influx of illegal immigrants who want to come here, then yeah, I'm intolerant. Then again, I will vociferously defend those same folks if anyone calls them lazy. If you've never hauled sod, bricks or working doing roofing, then you have no right to speak up on that but that's a topic for another day. There's a lot of Mexicans around here and nearly to a person, all of them are among the kindest and most generous folks I've ever had pleasure of dealing with. My only gripe is that a lot of them are hear illegally or that they demand we adapt to their needs. Same would go if we had a bunch of Jews come in and start demanding that we all learn Hebrew, or Poles showing up and demanding Polish language knowledge to make them feel welcome. Even as a polyglot, I don't like the idea of being told what languages I need to know.

I understand about losing patience sometimes; I'm certainly guilty of that.

You sound like you have a lot of offer. It's just that your initial remarks sounded to me like too much of a generalization.