Well... not with modern sim cards in smart phones... assuming the 93 year old chinese lady HAS a smart phone, with a US sim card, when she calls 911 cause she's having a heart attack.

Did you know.. I was FORCED to change my mailing address a few years ago. FEMA passed a law about the way houses and apartments were numbered, because 911 was having trouble with some addresses.

This is imaginary apt. number ofc, but I had to change mine from 345-4 (street name)to 345 (street name} apt. 4. Same thing for anyone with an address like 257 1/2 (street name). No more fractions.
Funny, but when it happened, and I had to change all my utility addresses and bank address etc., and all my online purchasing location addresses, etc. ...somehow, I understood the need.



/e ...and this was all in the SAME language.

This post was edited by Ghot on Jul 31 2019 10:11am

title of your autobiography.

Wish more people in 2019 believed in freedom.

what about you having the freedom of you speaking my language only in my country?

gonna be a no from me dog

oh... so you're a communist.

...or the freedom of misquoting me....even in sarcasm. :/



/e Oh wait... I never said that. In fact I said the opposite... way back in post 22.




This post was edited by Ghot on Jul 31 2019 10:19am

Explain then how this relates to the forced removal of Arabic symbology from restaurants (including the Islamic crescent), or the forced change from Middle Eastern domes on mosques to Pagoda-style roofs?

Well then are we back on China? If so... they are a lot more strict than the US. We all know this.
My initial point was, and still is... standardization in signs, placards, addresses etc., is a GOOD thing, and standardization in the same language is even better.

For businesses... I don't really think it matter what the sign says... just as long as it's in the same language that 95% of the country speaks.

That language thing comes in real handy in situations like... calling the fire dept., maybe, or the police or ambulance.



Literally in chinatown in SF... the street signs on the edges of chinatown were English on top, Chinese on the bottom. Further in... Chinese on top and English on the bottom... deep in chinatown... no English at all on the street signs.Even worse, the businesses had ideograms for store names and for street numbers.

Not a good idea.

and here i thought Vasya's "why are people saying russians hate gays when other countries hate gays too" thread was the worst of the month.