[Learn Spanish!] Casino workers accused of making insults en español - chron.com

thats just wrong by the guys.

 

I think that every person I see speaking a different language is insulting me. This might be why I don't get along with foreigners...

 

Since when can I sue people for insulting me to others? Frivolous.

 

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nomas juego.
que es esta desgracia que no saben espanol?
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INSULT!

 

As to thialo, archimalakas. Su gamo ti mana tin perasmeni ebdomada. Ay gamisou kai pare mou pipa, esy vlakas boutso gliftie.

 

Well, I would think that it would be a question of sexual harassment, or some other form of verbal sexual assault. I think the more interesting question is if you can be sexually harassed without knowing it. What I mean is, sexual harassment in my understanding seems to revolve around creating an atmosphere of discomfort or intimidation. It is largely perceptual. If you cannot understand what someone is saying, how can you feel harassed? Being told after the fact raises some really interesting questions regarding the timing of all the incidents. I don't know, maybe someone who's more familiar with the statutes can explain what the legal burdens are in a sexual harassment case...

 

quack quack quack!

 

The Vietnamese ladies in the hair/nair salons do it all the time.

 

You can't. IANAL, but I know enough of the law to know that if you can't prove actual damages (and prove that said damages were caused by the plaintiff's tort), you have no case. Even if the women understood what they were talking about, they would still have a ton of work to prove that the plaintiffs actions actually constituted sexual harassment. And there is no defamation or slander case either -- this is essentially a tree falling alone in the forest situation. If I were the plaintiffs I probably wouldn't even consider settlement, except for the purpose of avoiding legal fees/bad publicity. $500,000 per plaintiff? For what? Psh. Please.

 

My Spanish-speaking friends call me "pindejo" as a sign of their respect for my intelligence.

They tell me it means "genius."

They are such nice people.

 

This isn't exactly the same, but when I worked at a grocery store in college there were two Mexican workers that came in every night to clean the store and they would say things about me and my co-workers in Spanish that were... well let's just say they weren't compliments.

I am not a fluent Spanish speaker, but I did and do know enough that I could tell what they were saying and report them.

I don't know why you would try to sue, get them fired, yeah. But sue?

I wouldn't sue someone for calling me names in public, why should I sue for them calling me names behind my back.

 

500 grrrr for a verbally offending someone in another language?? seriously??? gimme a ****in break. fire the guys at worst. those women (NO ONE IN FACT) deserves a dime for that.

 

Does the Language matter?

Would it be better or worse had they said it in English?

Rocket River

 

I agree with you totally that they cannot prove damages. But proving damages more of a matter of meeting your factual/evidentiary burden. If you can't prove your case, then yeah, you have no case. I meant it more as a matter of procedure. Can you be harassed if it is via translation? Would you even have standing? If only one woman can understand it, but then translates for all the others, do they all have standing? I would think there's some argument to be made that if the person did not fell uncomfortable while they were in that atmosphere, then they haven't been harassed...

 

I would think it would in terms of feeling immediately uncomfortable. The language itself doesn't matter so much as the fact that most of them did not understand it. Think about how when people are talking through a translator, they tend to speak to the translator rather than the person being translated. That's always the standard move on tv when someone's dating a deaf person. The deaf person has to tell them to look at him/her when talking. Things are much more powerful when they come directly from the person saying them.

 

That's piz detz!

 

Gracias mi amigo!