And, to be fair, there are millions of U.S. citizens who speak English as a second language.
About 1 in 10 according to the U.S. census do not speak English at home.
https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2022/12/languages-we-speak-in-united-states.html
Spanish is first, Chinese a distant second. I am guessing there are also plenty of indigenous people, especially in Alaska considering its isolation, who primarily speak native languages at home.
I would think is a problem for English natives is the consonants themselves, because we have a lot of them and many don’t exist in English.
I am not an Arabic speaker at all, but one of the few amusing points of the Iraq war was that absolutely no one in the U.S. media could agree on how to pronounce Qatar. There were even segments on how to pronounce it. They didn't agree with each other.
Of course, they never actually put someone who spoke Arabic on TV to get them to pronounce it properly. They probably couldn't anyway considering the intelligence level of news anchors I've worked with.
It's not even a real estate issue sometimes. I worked in an office in an industrial facility- printing custom boxes. Everyone in an office job was on a hybrid schedule. No one's job required them to be at the office. All conversations were by Slack, all meetings were by Zoom even if we were all in the office. They could have knocked down the office space and put in at least two more industrial printers. Considering how backed up we got around Christmas, that would have helped them.
Some of this is just old assholes who think people need to be in the office all the time so they can watch them or something. I don't know.
At least they didn't make me wear a tie.
Agreed 100%. I used to work a hybrid schedule and I was much more efficient when I was at home and could be both relaxed and not distracted or annoyed by coworkers.
Honestly, I'll be surprised if he spends more than a few days at the White House.
At some point, you're fighting evolution and lizard brains. Some people can overcome their prejudices, but expecting the world's human population to be able to overcome that fight or flight response to strangers is probably not something achievable.
I remember reading that he absolutely hated the song and regretted taking part.
Apparently not Microsoft's generative AI. Despite their claims. You seem to think Microsoft is blameless and only wants the best for people rather than just a megacorporation that scams people to make money, which is weird considering that's been Microsoft's modus operandi for decades.
Where do you think undergrads will be trying to go now?
Europe?
Yes, but then where would they get good little soldiers for the meat grinder from?
Remember when Republicans hated the idea of death panels?
AP news is clearly not hiring the best editors anymore.
The word ethics in House "Ethics" Committee was not put between quotation marks at any point in the article.