¡Y mucho, mucho amor para ti!
Posted on 12/08/2007 2:19:34 PM PST by Earthdweller
December 9, 2007 - Miami, Florida
Univision, the nation’s largest Spanish-speaking television network, will be sponsoring a Republican debate hosted by the University of Miami on December 9, 2007. The candidates in attendance will be Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, Fred Thompson, Ron Paul, John McCain, Duncan Hunter, and Mike Huckabee.
But for millions of people who might want to view the debate, there could be a slight problem, to check the Univison website for air times you need to speak Spanish.
The explaination for a Spanish only site at first glance might be that there is a problem with inserting translation code into the website, but the webmaster clearly has the ability to add the translation software. While an English translation button is absent from Univison’s TV programming site, their English version Corporate site has a predominate Spanish translation button at the very top of the home page.
In addition, on the same Spanish only Univison TV programming site, there is a link to a bilingual site similar to My Space that appears to be a major concession to those Spanish speakers who want to hook up with American dates.
Now, I'm an English only speaker and with a serious thing like a Presidential debate airing tomorrow, I’m in too much of a hurry to hook up or even to wait for someone to put me on their Spanish “My Space” buddies list. I also need plenty of time to figure out how to activate the closed caption on my TV so I can read what people are saying. I figure it's the least I can do so I won't miss out on one of the most important debates of the 2008 election.
So with all this extra work I'm doing, I’m beginning to get a bit frustrated and I’m checking in my Webster’s English to Spanish dictionary to see if there is a Spanish equivalent to the word ‘ironic’.
It's true, I do try hard to be flexible in our ever increasingly PC world. I only moan for a second or two every time I have to push one for English, but I will have to admit that doing so is such an ever increasingly huge daily nuisance and I’ve have never even so much as gotten a thank you note from that machine voice on the other end of my phone.
Considering how much of my time I spend accommodating Univison's usual viewer-ship, it seems to me that Univison could at least offer me an English translation button so I can view their website.
But then again, accommodation is a two way street..in a perfect world.
http://www.univision.com/portal.jhtml
ill pass
BTT!
Mañana, el domingo. 9 de diciembre a partir de las 7 hora de este /6 pm Centro
No sava nada!
I’m sick to death of this crap.
¡Y mucho, mucho amor para ti!
Panderers, all of them.
OK so what channel is Univision on Direct TV?
http://www.univision.com/content/channel.jhtml?chid=3&schid=10414
On the front page it's called "Foro Republicano". The debate is Sunday the 9th (tomorrow) at 7pm EST. If you want a translation you can go to yahoo or google and they have translation pages where you can enter the above address and it will translate the entire page. Not very well...but well enough.
Hunter and Thompson too? Maybe some of the candidates want to show how it would benefit Hispanic U.S. citizens to be against illegal immigration.
For the record, many legal immigrants from Latin America speak both Spanish and English, but prefer Spanish at home. Their children tend to speak mostly English.
The link I provided also appears to have a link to watch the debat live online. So, if you don’t have Univision, you can watch it at the link above.
If this debate is only going to be on the jibberish network and the net it wont much matter what any of them say.
Nobody is going to watch it.
There should be analysis of the debate by FoxNews and other channels in English. I will be watching to see how the candidates stand up to illegal immigrant whining. I hope the candidates bring up issues like abortion and taxes. The cowards at Univision and the rest of leftist media always create the image that Hispanics don’t care about issues that could favor Republicans.
I don’t particularly like important information digested for me and then spit out with spin. Events rarely come out of the wash the way they originally occurred after the information shapers get to it.
The language of the American nation is English. For the most part the Mexicans who come here do not want to assimilate. They want all the economic advantages that American can offer them but were denied to them in Mexico. They cling to a failed culture of oppression by refusing to learn English. They have no appreciation of the genius of American culture. What they are incapable of is gratitude to the country that has given them so much to be thankful for.
Dec. 9, 7pm /6 central.
Dear God in Heaven let’s hope they don’t try speaking Spanish. That would just put me over the edge!!! lol.
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