October 26, 2009
Hotel Owner Orders Hispanic Workers To Anglicize Names
The tough-talking former Marine immediately laid down some new rules. Among them, he forbade the Hispanic workers at the ... hotel from speaking Spanish in his presence (he thought they'd be talking about him), and ordered some to Anglicize their names.
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Now if he was over here in Dallas he could have fined them for not speaking English.
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Yeah, that doesn't go over so well in northern New Mexico.
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Only in the land of the free.
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In New Zealand, Maori do it the other way: English names made into Maori.
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Zis sign, hit ees too Hinglish.
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When I hear my name in Spanish, it sounds weird almost. The same pronunciation rendered in English is a girl's name... (Danielle?) So the concept of a trans linguistic name change needs gentle cultivation, not insensitive coercion, I'm sure.
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Un qué hijo - de - a - perra! I hope they run his bigoted ass right back to whatever Texas rathole he came from.
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I don't really see that this is a big deal. I always make my secretaries change their names to stripper names. This message was dictated by bernockle, but typed by Nutmeg Hummer (formerly Megan Summers)