[BC] EAS in SoCal

[RichardBJohnson at comcast.net]

When I worked for Paul Gregg at Sparta/Cetec, we obtained a
contract for a number of stations in Columbia. As part of that
contract, several Columbian Engineers came to the US to
learn about the transmitters. They all spoke English, the
United States language of commerce. However, being
somewhat of an experimenter and rather bold, I tried
to learn a bit of Spanish as well. Of course, the first
thing you learn are the swear words!

By the time the the Engineers were to leave (a few weeks), I
had acquired some skills in conversational Spanish, enough
to carry on a simple conversation.

Later, I spent a month in Columbia, working with these
same Engineers. By the time I had encountered
the "total immersion" of living and working in Columbia,
I had become conversant in Spanish. Paul Gregg remains
conversant to this day. Basically, it shows that it only takes
a month for a person of average intelligence to become
conversant  in a simple language like Spanish or French.
German and English are a bit harder because of all the
exceptions. Perhaps it would take two months.

If the Hispanics want to be treated equal, they have no excuses,
learn English. The idea that there are third and forth generation
Hispanics, with no English skills in unconscionable. Furthermore,
what most Hispanics speak is not even Spanish. It is Mexican
street lingo, like 'rap.' The lack of such skills can be laid at
the feet of the "bilingual teachers" who are propagating the
failure to communicate using English to further their agenda
(to remain employed as Spanish teachers).
 

--
Cheers,
Richard B. Johnson
Read about my book
http://www.LymanSchool.org


 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Larry Fuss" <lfuss2 at cox.net>
> Jerry is right.  This is b.s.  In American Samoa, we were getting pressure
> to air the EAS tests in Samoan as well as English.  Never mind the fact that
> everyone speaks English as well.  After resisting it for a while, I finally
> said "ok, get me a translation done."  Three different people came up the
> three different versions of how the monthly test script should be done in
> Samoan and none of them could agree on the translation.  Screw it, I'm
> sticking to English.
> 
> Larry Fuss
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net
> [mailto:broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Jerry Mathis
> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 9:43 AM
> To: Broadcasters' Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [BC] EAS in SoCal
> 
> 
> This may sound callous, but frankly, I don't care. If you want to live in
> the US of A, then learn to speak the language. If you're an illegal alien, I
> don't care if you hear the message or not.
> 
> All we need is some political activist group to bring this to everyone's
> attention, and the next thing you know, we'll be having to send bilingual
> EAS messages. EAS takes enough of my time as it is, I don't need more
> requirements to deal with.
> 
> Jerry Mathis
> 
> 
> On 10/25/07, Reader <reader at oldradio.com> wrote:
> >
> > From Inside Radio:
> >
> > San Diego's EAS is activated - but for some listeners, it was no help.
> >
> > When San Diego's EAS fired up Sunday night as the wildfires spread, 
> > the signal from primary station KOGO was heard across all market 
> > stations. Univision typically follows EAS with translations, but it 
> > was Sunday night and there was no bilingual staff on duty at 
> > Univision's cluster. So nobody could translate the message to the 
> > market's Spanish-speaking listeners.
> >
> >
> >
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