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foreigner workers speaking in their own language in shops etc

  • 18-12-2010 07:05PM
    #1
    eurokev
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 979 ✭✭✭eurokev


    Does it annoy you?

    Does it?

    Does it?

    It does me sometimes!!! But doesnt other times

    Kurve:)


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  • #2
    bonerm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,594 ✭✭✭bonerm


    eurokev wrote: »
    It does me sometimes!!! But doesnt other times

    Great.


  • #3
    travellingbid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 229 ✭✭travellingbid


    Yes sometimes it bothers me. Especially in supermarkets when putting through your groceries and they shouting back and forth to one another.


  • #4
    28064212
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,155 ✭✭✭✭28064212


    What if they're speaking in Irish? Does that annoy you too?

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  • #5
    Son Of A Vidic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    To right OP - The only time I want to hear a foreign language or accent, is in the bedroom.


  • #6
    henryporter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,089 ✭✭✭henryporter


    eurokev wrote: »
    Does it annoy you?

    Does it?

    Does it?

    It does me sometimes!!! But doesnt other times

    Kurve:)

    Why only sometimes and not all the times?


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  • #7
    BASHIR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 554 ✭✭✭BASHIR


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8uApz-rQ8E

    cant embed sorry link here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8uApz-rQ8E
    :D


  • #8
    tommyhaas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,100 ✭✭✭tommyhaas


    I find it extremely ignorant. I have no problem whatsoever with immigrants, however I believe that they should make every effort to integrate into the countries 'way of doing things'. This lack of integration leads to a ghetto mentality which I believe is part of the reason for the trouble in the likes of Bradford in the UK, a continued failure to integrate over a number of years


  • #9
    pablomakaveli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,752 ✭✭✭pablomakaveli


    Ní thuigim OP.


  • #10
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    eurokev wrote: »
    foreigner workers speaking in their own language in shops etc

    Hate this when I go abroad.


  • #11
    hidinginthebush
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,675 ✭✭✭hidinginthebush


    28064212 wrote: »
    What if they're speaking in Irish? Does that annoy you too?

    That annoys me :mad:


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  • #12
    TheZohanS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,581 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


    It's one of my pet hates. To be fair most managers etc. do their best to stamp it out.


  • #13
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    If they are speking to a customer, no. If they are speaking amoungst each other, wouldn't annoy me but would find it a bit rude. I have seen in some shops the supervisor/manager pull them up on it.


  • #14
    tasha200
    Closed Accounts Posts: 67 ✭✭tasha200


    have to say the irish have done a great job integrating over the years also lol.. couldnt care less as long as they are doing there job, if they spoke swahili... Im not interested in their conversations wether in english irish or whatever, as long as Im not waiting in line and I am served etc... infact, you could say the same about cork people etc. lol.. what you going to say 'speak the queens english'.?????.............. lol


  • #15
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    28064212 wrote: »
    What if they're speaking in Irish? Does that annoy you too?

    Not a foreign language.


  • #16
    tommyhaas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,100 ✭✭✭tommyhaas


    28064212 wrote: »
    What if they're speaking in Irish? Does that annoy you too?

    Would annoy me if it wasent in Ireland


  • #17
    Mrmoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,216 ✭✭✭Mrmoe


    It does annoy me a little bit. I find it worse when colleagues do it and you are just left there twiddling your thumbs like a spanner.


  • #18
    strobe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭strobe


    eurokev wrote: »
    Does it annoy you?

    Does it?

    Does it?

    It does me sometimes!!! But doesnt other times

    Kurve:)

    Of course not. What a stupid question.


  • #19
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    28064212 wrote: »
    What if they're speaking in Irish? Does that annoy you too?
    that is quite possibly the most stupid argument i have seen.


  • #20
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,226 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Tbh shop workers chatting amongst themselves whilst you are standing there as a customer is irritating anyway. The language thing wouldn't bug me really though


  • #21
    evercloserunion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,889 ✭✭✭evercloserunion


    I'm not racist but...


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  • #22
    freckly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 77 ✭✭freckly


    Not in the slightest! I worked abroad and babbled away in English to my colleagues because they spoke English to me. One day another colleague made a complaint about this at the staff meeting and the boss told her to cop on (a phrase he must have learned from me!). As long as workers here have enough English to communicate with the customer, who cares what they speak to each other!


  • #23
    Mr Johnson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44 ✭Mr Johnson


    Why do you want to listen to other people's private conversations ?


  • #24
    alex73
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,729 ✭✭✭alex73


    Is fuath liom an Béarla oibrithe a labhraíonn Béarla.


  • #25
    Dr_Phil
    Closed Accounts Posts: 711 ✭✭✭Dr_Phil


    I can't really rant about it too much, cause I'm an immigrant myself (not using too much of my own language tho, not in public places anyway) but I was on the bus the other day and that Chinese girl, yapping over the phone just behind my head... 5 min... 10.... 20...


    I admit I got headache, simply because I couldn't understand a word and it was nothing else but a pure, disturbing, meaningless noise to me.


  • #26
    alex73
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,729 ✭✭✭alex73


    irish-stew wrote: »
    If they are speking to a customer, no. If they are speaking amoungst each other, wouldn't annoy me but would find it a bit rude. I have seen in some shops the supervisor/manager pull them up on it.


    Hmmm,, Are you saying the as a European that we are not allowed to speak one or more the the official languages of Europe?

    Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish and Swedish

    Why are people so bother was 2 people are talking about.

    Just goes to show how petty (and nosy) some Irish can be.


  • #27
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,608 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    I hate bogger's speaking boggerish in Dublin shops, really annoying.

    Find it a lot up around Rathmines.

    But in reality, it doesn't bother me in the slightest if a foreigner speaks in their own language around me, once its not to me.

    Although it annoy's the bejaysus out of me when I'm being driven home by an African taxi driver and he's speaking Africanese on the phone for the journey - I find thats the majority of 'em, although they're on blue tooth its a freaker.


  • #28
    gsxr1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,167 ✭✭✭gsxr1


    I hate Polish, Russian and Cork.

    They hurt my ears with there horrible sounding language.

    Cant understand a word


  • #29
    eurokev
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 979 ✭✭✭eurokev


    tommyhaas wrote: »
    I find it extremely ignorant. I have no problem whatsoever with immigrants, however I believe that they should make every effort to integrate into the countries 'way of doing things'. This lack of integration leads to a ghetto mentality which I believe is part of the reason for the trouble in the likes of Bradford in the UK, a continued failure to integrate over a number of years


    OMG

    my god

    When I read your user name I read it as 'to my ass'

    are you trying to tell us something there ?


  • #30
    Wolfe Tone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,670 ✭✭✭✭Wolfe Tone


    I dont like to hear people blabbing away without being able to understand em tbh, they could be saying anything!

    It doesnt really bother me though


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  • #31
    Handsome Bob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,905 ✭✭✭✭Handsome Bob


    The only problem I have is when they mutter something in their native language after getting a €50 note, if you're gonna be a smart ass, have the bottle to say it in a language I understand. :pac:


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