tloonya
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Post by tloonya on Mar 17, 2014 12:26:22 GMT -5
Common people, I thought everyone knew what to do if someone doesn't understand your language -> you just start speaking louder and louder, slower and slower. If you shout loudly enough they will surely understand you, provided they are not total dimwits, right? You wouldn't believe how many times I have observed this behavior over the years! And this behavior seems to be universal. Totally weird but true Grandma was the only one who wasn't afraid to pick up the phone in this family of new immigrants. She was listening and nodding aand answering in Russian 'Izzy is not home, call later'. 'You don't understand me? I don't know what to do, I am speaking slowly and loudly...Izzy is not home, call later'. When Izzy came home she said someone called. He asked why did she picked up the phone. She answered 'if they calling here - it is their problem they don't understand me, not mine'... And it is one of my friends granny. We are still having kick out of it.
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Sum Dum Gai
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Post by Sum Dum Gai on Mar 17, 2014 13:30:34 GMT -5
Are you going to charge me $1.99 a minute this time? Not saying it wasn't worth it, but I'm saving up for Kublacon.
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tloonya
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Post by tloonya on Mar 17, 2014 13:43:50 GMT -5
Are you going to charge me $1.99 a minute this time? Not saying it wasn't worth it, but I'm saving up for Kublacon. No gaming convention can beat conversation with me! Common... call me charges down to $1.95/min
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Sum Dum Gai
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Post by Sum Dum Gai on Mar 17, 2014 16:50:44 GMT -5
You've clearly never been to Kublacon!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2014 23:11:40 GMT -5
Start in Arizona, they seem to be willing to ban immigrants, all immigrants. Complain to your congressman. US used to require education levels and long application reviews with sponsor certification. They stopped doing that a long time ago. I am not sure why they stop. Canada still does have immigration profile. I think it is not completely undemocratic then. Really? I did not know that. We sponsored My husband's Aunt & family when DH and I were first married (about 20 years ago). We had to show that we had adequate income for the # of people we spnsored, I think we had to have a place for them to live lined up (we did anyways) they had to provide certain documentation at Juarez and have a pretty large amount of cash to pay the fees. I remember that I thought it was nuts that you could not wire the $$ anywere to be put on deposit. I don't think there was any education requirments. I would be surprised if the aunt and uncle graduated from HS although with family here in the US sending them $$ maybe they did. My Hudband's Aunt and Uncle have 6 kids. Their oldest daughter was already an adult and married so she stayed in Mexico. Hope she is OK because they live in Michoacan (State) which is in the news for being controled by the Knights Templar Gang. Yes the documentation provided was like a bible including financial info. I don't know if it is still required I will have to ask DH if he has heard anything. All are working except for the yougest who is in HS. Don't know if he will graduate as DH says he is a party animal. I think it was just this weekend that USA Today had an article on the Knights Templar controlling Michoacan and having control of Police and Politicians etc. One wonders if people from this region can get refugee status? The article said that the top moneymaker for Knights Templar was Mining Iron Ore, and Slavery is going on. Yes, I came in over 50 years ago and it was quotas per nationality, so education level became one of the competitive factors when you have more people trying to immigrate than # of spots available. In 1965 reform happened and priority was given to reunite families, so even if you have aunt/uncle/cousin in US then you got priority for family to be back together. Last person I worked with to come into country was over 4" stack of documents and proofs. I am astonished anyone gets in with that amount of paperwork required!
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NancysSummerSip
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Post by NancysSummerSip on Mar 18, 2014 8:51:45 GMT -5
I love you to. Call me. I speak better than I write. And I have that...voice...you know... Is that the one where the Eastern European chick sounds like she's smoked 4 packs of cigarettes a day for the last 30 years when she says "Hello....my name is Eeeevanka"?? And then she coughs for fifteen minutes, hacks up mucus for another 10 minutes and resumes conversation in that throaty voice. "Sooooooo.. vat vould you like me to do vor you today, dahlink?"
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tloonya
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Post by tloonya on Mar 18, 2014 9:14:17 GMT -5
I love you to. Call me. I speak better than I write. And I have that...voice...you know... Is that the one where the Eastern European chick sounds like she's smoked 4 packs of cigarettes a day for the last 30 years when she says "Hello....my name is Eeeevanka"?? No! Just about 2.5 - 3 packs. 4 would be too expensive. And charges would have to go up what would be non YMski...
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