Travel

[KenHigg]

20 billion to have a better travel experience and they'll likely have a minimum wage gate agent to ruin it -

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7290432.stm

 

[Ron_dK]

He was project architect of the new terminal at Barajas in Madrid, which won the architectural Oscar, the Stirling Prize, and he thinks a building's design can go a long way to easing traveller tensions.


The wavy roof in Madrid is calming
"The most obvious is being able to understand how the building is organised. Some of the worst cases like Gatwick or Schiphol, you enter the building and you have no idea what your route is

I second that. Allthough I'm a frequent flyer, sometimes I'm completely lost at Schiphol, were they still don't bother to put signs/signals in the Dutch Language !!!

 

[BarryMK]

I second that. Allthough I'm a frequent flyer, sometimes I'm completely lost at Schiphol, were they still don't bother to put signs/signals in the Dutch Language !!!

Not surprising Ron - Dutch is a bloody impossible language, that's why you all speak English.

Still you'll be in real trouble if you come over here, some idiot councils have been putting up road signs in Polish!

 

[Rich]

some idiot councils have been putting up road signs in Polish!

And Cornish and Welsh, christ it won't be long before English becomes an extinct language

 

[Sum Guy]

And Cornish and Welsh, christ it won't be long before English becomes an extinct language

Only in England. In the "colonies" we're all too lazy to learn another language.

 

[Rich]

Only in England. In the "colonies" we're all too lazy to learn another language.

Pardon?

 

[KenHigg]

Pardon?

what in the blazes did you have to google to find that picture?

 

[ShaneMan]

Pardon?

I'm not too lazy to learn another language but I don't think I should have to. English is this countries language. I am slowly being forced into considering Spanish because about 70% or more of my customers are Spanish speaking and do not speak English. I can not even do business unless I have an interpreter present. I agree with Rich, English is heading for extinction.

 

[Ron_dK]

Pardon?

Oui, confirmė

Ancestry groups

The largest ancestry groups in New Hampshire are:

* Flag of France 26.6% French or French Canadian
* Flag of Ireland 21.1% Irish
* Flag of England 20.1% English
* Flag of Italy 10.4% Italian
* Flag of Germany 10.3% German
* Flag of Scotland 7.8% Scottish or Scots-Irish

 

[BarryMK]

what in the blazes did you have to google to find that picture?

Brits 1
Colonials 0

 

[Rich]

what in the blazes did you have to google to find that picture?

We are a very knowledgeable and resourceful people, anything that we're not sure of we carry out detailed and prolonged research to get at the truth

 

[BarryMK]

We are a very knowledgeable and resourceful people, anything that we're not sure of we carry out detailed and prolonged research to get at the truth

We also invented the Googlie!

 

[Ron_dK]

We are a very knowledgeable and resourceful people...

Would that be you and the rest of Eden

 

[Rich]

Would that be you and the rest of Eden

Well that's one way of describing England

 

[Ron_dK]

I'm still curious on what resources you use , Webster, Rutgers, Christian bookshop, or collective memory

 

[Rich]

collective memory , now what was the question?

 

[KenHigg]

Another snafu:

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-flbairport0314sbmar14,0,1836473.story

Probably a green logistics majors design

Should of had to pull a semester slinging bags then he wouldn't have made this mistake -

 

[statsman]

Pardon?

These signs are posted at the International border between Canada and the US. More specifically, New Hampshire and Quebec. Hence the French.

In Quebec they have "sign laws" which state that French must be the dominant language on all signs. If it were posted in Quebec the sign would read:

Bienvenue au Nouveau Hampshire.
Au bas Anglais

PS
Vermont, New York and Maine have similar signs.

 

[ColinEssex]

I don't see why they need the French signs - it is a British Commonwealth country after all. It should be in English and if the frogs can't read it then it's tough luck.

Col

 

[statsman]

I don't see why they need the French signs - it is a British Commonwealth country after all. It should be in English and if the frogs can't read it then it's tough luck.

Col

The signs are in New Hampshire.
The French is a courtesy to the Quebecers using that border crossing.

The Canadian Constitution states that Canada is a bi-lingual country, French and English.
South Africa - Africaans and English
India has about a half-dozen official languages of which English is one. This does not include the sub dialects.

You will probably find in many Commonwealth countries that the bi or multi lingual case is the rule rather than the exception.
Obvious exceptions: Australia and New Zealand