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Post by Dragon Zachski on Sept 23, 2011 3:10:23 GMT -5
I've tried several times to actually learn another language, but I tend to get stuck on the "practice" part.
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Post by Mantorok on Sept 23, 2011 8:35:43 GMT -5
Honestly, the fact they didn't give the name of the school at the start should've been a hint that it wasn't a real answering machine message. Also, we don't usually refer to food from the canteen as "school lunches". Absence from school does NOT necessarily mean unresponsible or lazy. You're required to provide a medical certificate from a doctor if you're absent for medical reasons. I think the rules may even have changed so that pharmacists can issue them. |
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Post by anti-nonsense on Sept 25, 2011 0:45:48 GMT -5
I've learned bits and pieces of French, Spanish, Japanese, and Portuguese. I'm best at French owing to having been exposed to some of it from a young age.
Also where I live we have English an French as official languages in Canada but the government offices I've seen here in British Columbia have at least some service in Chinese due to the large number of Chinese speaking immigrants that live around here.
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Post by nightangel1282 on Sept 25, 2011 0:51:24 GMT -5
The problem with getting medical notes or certificates is that a lot of the time, you have to PAY for those items, and the parent's don't always have the money.
My sister didn't bring a single note to the school, and she still passed without a single word from the teachers. But then... I guess in those days, the teachers were more likely to actualy believe the parents.
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Post by cestlefun17 on Sept 26, 2011 7:50:38 GMT -5
Presumably everything that precedes the language comment is in response to something the school has heard over and over a million times (in the fictitious universe it inhabits), hence where the humor comes from: the school shorthands what it's heard a million times before by granting these frequent idiotic critiques their own menu option.
So to follow this logic, the school has also had numerous complaints that their services are not provided in other languages. If the school, out of the kindness of its heart and out of the kindness of the taxpayers' hearts, wishes to provide services in foreign languages, then wonderful. But it is entirely inappropriate to demand in Australia that a public institution communicate with you in a language other than English (the only exception being probably an aboriginal reservation).
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Post by Mantorok on Sept 26, 2011 8:41:59 GMT -5
The problem with getting medical notes or certificates is that a lot of the time, you have to PAY for those items, and the parent's don't always have the money. Yeah, but this is supposedly from Australia where you don't pay for a medical certificate. |
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