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Old Dec 14, 2014 | 10:51 pm
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Originally Posted by EmailKid
In my line of work I deal with some Spanish only speaking patients, and I decided a long time ago to learn a little Spanish.

My co-worker who has been at it for over 30 years just talks LOUDER
As if speaking LOUDER would make the other person magically understand english...

I have a buddy who's an air traffic controller at a major intl airport who goes out of his way to give very simple taxi instructions to foreign carriers because he doesn't want to overburden a pilot who doesn't speak english very well with extremely complex taxi routings, such as not using a departure runway further away when there's an arrival runway nearby that he can squeeze a departure through in between arrivals.
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