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Uh, what?
My confused little world has transitioned from English to Spanish without warning me in advance.
I was driving to work, listening to NPR per usual. The radio spontaneously changed stations to a Spanish-language station.
I was going to scan some documents into a PDF file; the photocopier control panel was displaying instructions in Spanish. I could have changed the default back to English, but the words and symbols were clear enough that I got my job done without difficulty.
Sitting at my desk, the telephone rang: it was a telemarketing recorded message, all in Spanish.
All before 9:30 AM.
I have no issues with using languages other than English --I can switch to French or ASL-- but I work in an environment where dialects of Hindi or Farsi are vastly more common than Spanish. In a way, it's kind of nice to have the novelty of having Spanish insert itself into the mix, even if it's just random chance.
I was driving to work, listening to NPR per usual. The radio spontaneously changed stations to a Spanish-language station.
I was going to scan some documents into a PDF file; the photocopier control panel was displaying instructions in Spanish. I could have changed the default back to English, but the words and symbols were clear enough that I got my job done without difficulty.
Sitting at my desk, the telephone rang: it was a telemarketing recorded message, all in Spanish.
All before 9:30 AM.
I have no issues with using languages other than English --I can switch to French or ASL-- but I work in an environment where dialects of Hindi or Farsi are vastly more common than Spanish. In a way, it's kind of nice to have the novelty of having Spanish insert itself into the mix, even if it's just random chance.
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