Do you get mad when asked to "press 1 for English"?

[youngohioan216]

If a business wants to give customers an option other than English, that's their choice.

[This account no longer in use.]

No, not at all. People who whine about having to 'press 1 for English' are too cowardly to show themselves as the racists they truly are.

[SATW]

no, because im not a moron.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

Yes, incidentally, since dealing with phone menus is an unpleasant experience.

[RI]

That's my secret, Captain. I'm always angry.

[Zioneer]

No, why would I? Support for multiple languages shows off our diversity, and that's a great thing.

[Attorney General, LGC Speaker, and Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

No, why would I? Support for multiple languages shows off our diversity, and that's a great thing.

[Sir Mohamed]

No; America is a nation of many languages. However, everybody should be able to speak English fluently. But I think it's a little sad that most Americans other than lations speak no second language.

[DavidB.]

No, but it's better to have options to press for different languages and to do nothing for, in my case, Dutch (lazy).

[ElectionsGuy]

No (not Trump supporter)

[Classic Conservative]

Yes, incidentally, since dealing with phone menus is an unpleasant experience.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

God, you guys are milquetoast.

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

No, not at all. People who whine about having to 'press 1 for English' are too cowardly to show themselves as the racists they truly are.

This.

[DINGO Joe]

No, but I do get mad that they don't have an option for Klingon.

[Kingpoleon]

"get"?

[Oldiesfreak1854]

No, I see no reason why people who are more comfortable with another language shouldn't be allowed to use it.  That being said, I think that immigrants should be required to learn English because it's practically necessary in order to be successful in America.

[Vosem]

No. If anything, I'm always slightly disappointed by Russian not being an option.

[Goldwater]

Nah, I don't get worked up about things that easily. At least I don't think I do.

[Zioneer]

No, I see no reason why people who are more comfortable with another language shouldn't be allowed to use it.  That being said, I think that immigrants should be required to learn English because it's practically necessary in order to be successful in America.

Legally they're not required, but de facto, to really get anywhere in America, you have to learn English. By the third generation, immigrants almost always know English better than their native language, even if they live in an area that's kept the native language alive as well. There's not really a point in legally requiring it for the sake of nationalism when it happens by definition and has plenty of support already.

[This account no longer in use.]

No, I see no reason why people who are more comfortable with another language shouldn't be allowed to use it.  That being said, I think that immigrants should be required to learn English because it's practically necessary in order to be successful in America.

I don't think it should be a requirement. People will learn English naturally after realizing it's so necessary.

[Zioneer]

No, I see no reason why people who are more comfortable with another language shouldn't be allowed to use it.  That being said, I think that immigrants should be required to learn English because it's practically necessary in order to be successful in America.

I don't think it should be a requirement. People will learn English naturally after realizing it's so necessary.

Exactly. There's no ethnic community in the US geographically clustered enough that anyone can spend all of their lives in without learning English. Some that you can get by in with poor English, sure, but anyone who lives here for any large amount of time (or their children spend enough time here) learns English by default. There's absolutely no need to make it a requirement.

Printing other languages alongside English for certain functions is helpful and eases the transition from non-English to English, but is not strictly necessary.

[DavidB.]

How about election ads in other languages?

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

No, because at least it's a short prompt.  What I get mad with is when there's a long prompt that can't be skipped, even if you've heard it before.  There's one call I have to regularly make at work that has a freaking 30 second message about how if you have a foreign bank account associated with your account, you can't use the telephone payment system. It applies to very few people and can't be skipped over.  Worse, there's zero reason for the message.  If it does apply to you, the system should be able to tell you that message when you enter your id info and not waste the the time of everyone else.

(30 seconds isn't too bad for a one-time message, but as I said, it's a call I have to make several times a week and I take over more of the accounts we have that need to make use of the service, is likely to eat up even more of my time.)

[The Dowager Mod]

No and I don't get the people who let it bother them.

[Thunderbird is the word]

No (not a racist nativist asshole)