@matrix not sure how true this is, but i've known lot of cases of people who forgets SPANISH.
Then you talk to them and they speak in a weird amalgamation of spanish and english.
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@hideki @matrix we have JUST ENOUGH of a Spanish-speaking infrastructure in the US that Mexicans can get away with never speaking English. Somehow. I wouldn't want that existence, being unable to understand anything that's going on or have a conversation with the majority of people. We had so many Spanish-only speakers coming to my job for work that NOBODY could understand so they wouldn't do their jobs right that we had to clarify in the application that English is a required language to work here.
So many Mexican people just don't want to learn English, or figure that their kids will learn it in school and they'll be able to translate everything for them. That's in stark contrast to literally everyone else that comes here. That's why a lot of people here hate Mexicans.
"you know i am a US citizen and i'm recording you!"
me:"great, please record me so that i don't have to repeat the information i just said"
hoe:"i want to talk to your supervisor"
me:"i cannot transfer you to my supervisor, and if i could he would tell you the same"
hoe:"transfer me to your manager!"
me:"i can transfer you to management but they will give you the same answer"
-hie hangs up the call-