I believe "ah, claro, y seΓ±or puede chupar mis juevos con salsa fresca" would be a proper response.
this post was submitted on 20 Sep 2025
95 points (94.4% liked)
Asklemmy
50620 readers
374 users here now
A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions
Search asklemmy π
If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!
- Open-ended question
- Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
- Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
- Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
- An actual topic of discussion
Looking for support?
Looking for a community?
- Lemmyverse: community search
- sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
- !lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities
~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~
founded 6 years ago
MODERATORS
That frankly sounds like power-tripping / intimidation, but perhaps I'm biased living amd working in a multi-lingual environment.
Yeah. Probably American institutionalized racism.
Maybe this person is an asshole and has the reasonable expectation that people will say rude things about them if they can't understand what they are saying.
In meetings English or Dutch depending on the language skills of the people. Eating or anything else together the same. Two people from the same country collaborating on something with just the two of them, their own! Way more effective as long as their documentation is in English again :)
It sounds like you're dealing with a multinational company.
There may be value in having all employees operate in the company's ligua franca over a better language as it provides practice to employees to function in the common language.
It may be easier for you to function in Spanish now, but you may have to interface with employees in the future where they know English and not Spanish.
How do you help those who can't speak Spanish?
Hardern hell to police
What companies are doing this?
It's being pushed in a lot of NZ hospitals at the moment. The claim is something along the lines of "all healthcare discussions need to be in english to avoid miscommunication", but in reality it's a bunch of white people getting upset because they think brown people are talking shit about them behind their backs.
Maybe they are, and they're polite enough to make sure they speak in a language they don't understand so they don't hurt their feelings, lol. But even that isn't enough for the Anglo-Saxon man! ππ