So if you happen to have a thicc Indian accent you need a second guy with you to translate English to English. Gotcha
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Trump plans to sign an executive order requiring commercial truck drivers to speak English.
(www.rawstory.com)
I keep on thinking of the mad tv skit with the woman who says she can't understand people with accents.
Is there any such requirement for ships in international waters?
English seems a bit too narrow, but I could see one of maybe 10 languages being a requirement (English, Spanish, French, German, Arabic, Mandarin, Russian, Portuguese, etc)
Or perhaps, like the UN requires, at least three on this list.
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Seems more and more like every headline could be: Senile Old Man Yells at the Sky*.
*with the authority of the US government.
Later: "Okay, my executive order is in effect. But what the hell is a lorrie?"
Literally no trumpees anywhere can tell you their top three works of literature.
This is fact.
Unless it's the old testament, the new testament, and the headlines of faux news
That’s informational text, not literature.
My severely undereducated state rep trumpee Angela Rigas replied to me that her top three works of literature are the bible, constitution, and declaration of independence. She had no response when I told her those aren’t literature.
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So, they will arrest people for not obeying an executive order that, and IANAL, has no basis in law? How will they be identifying these drivers? What is the justification for pulling them over?
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*sniff sniff*
Smells like your food is about to cost even more.