A foolish consistency

[pecunium]

As I was noodling around Blogshares (actually, I was moderating votes on the index) and I found a guy complaining about having to choose beween English and Spanish when he uses the ATM.

I asked him what the problem was, after all, it was capitalism in action.

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[redbird]

My friends in Canada like it that their bank stores their preference, and the machine goes to the correct language as soon as they insert their card. Me, I like playing around and using Spanish sometimes; the choices are pretty simple, I'm expected to actually think of Spanish words on my own, so it's useful vocabulary practice.

I think I tried French once, last trip north. I do not select Chinese or Russian, when offered.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

I can get Chinese, Hmong, Spanish, on occaision I see Tagalog or Japanese.

I never see Russian (which I'd try), though I suspect I can (so long as I use my bank) fake it in any of those, because the positions of the buttons don't change.

TK