Well, then tk-lclt-kt-tlcktl you too!
Ah, yes, racism! Any American who resents the intrusion of other cultures must be morally flawed instead of a perfectly normal human being. Why try to understand us when you can just pretend you are morally superior to us and despise us?
Mi aerodeslizador es lleno de anguilas.
Best laugh today.
Hey, Khoisan is a made-up white man’s word. The Khoikhoi and San peoples have nothing in common except that the white devil couldn’t tell them apart! 
One of the weird things I’ve noticed around here is that if you make any sort of complaint or comment about non-english speakers that is not positive, even in an off-hand manner, someone will call you a bigot. (I got called one once for complaining about employees with extremely poor English in Target) Apparently, if you reference an African language in your rant, you are also racist.
Oddly, I think the OP was trying to not look bigoted by listing other languages, because when I was answering phones, the only language this ever happened with (the attitude, not the communication problems) was Spanish.
It is not unheard off in CA to get people who get pissed at you for not speaking Spanish. I think it’s those people who are stirring up the most backlash. I respect people’s right to speak their own language. I’ll talk slow and we can patch together my bad spanish with your bad english and have a laugh about it. But I can’t stand getting attitude because I, a native born and pasty white American, can’t coverse fluently in your language.
(I was a receptionist for a while, after the crash when I was desperate)
Je suis intéressé par vos idées. Avez-vous un bulletin en français ?
No, you should not put the monkey in your washing machine, and the dump truck cannot be used for making soup.*
*My Babelfish hasn’t been feeling well …
It’s (at least partly) a linguist’s word. Khoisan is a group of related languages, just as Indo-European is a group of languages.
If you want to understand what the person cursing you out in Spanish is saying, try watching reruns of I Love Lucy. You’ll pick it up pretty quick.
With the exception of the last example, I have in fact had people scream and yell at me for not speaking each of the listed languages. But Spanish is definitely the one I hear (and get yelled at in) the most.
California is first, Texas is second.
yes, eh. You’re only welcome if you bring some Tim’s with you. I like the crullers.
This has started to happen to me as well. I live near Chicago. But it is somewhat fraught with difficulties, seeing as how the people come to us for health care. We do have people who are fluent in Spanish, but they can’t be everywhere. Time was when people who couldn’t speak English came with someone who could. Not so much anymore. It’s dangerous for both of us.
I’m glad someone got the joke…
I was with you up until you related an anecdote of someone speaking Spanish. With so many businesses offering bilingual services, Spanish-speakers may begin to expect it. While they shouldn’t get mad at you about it, it’s hardly the same as “every existing language should be accommodated”.
The more I look at this, the more it looks like Kalihari Bushman Tonguedick. Which I guess is the language of luuuuuuuv.
I think people should at least be learning English if they live here, but I do not support English-only political initiatives, mostly because their main spokespeople always seem to be smug conservatives working off animus against out-groups.
Of course if all you said was “no” you could be speaking Spanish. 
I have the opposite problem here - people who insist on trying to speak English to me when my Spanish is much better than their English, on the theory that gringos are incapable of speaking Spanish. Goddamit! I can’t understand you! SPEAK SPANISH!
It’s funny, the only language I’ve ever had somebody get frustrated and shout at me because I didn’t understand them was, I assume, Hindi! And this is in South Carolina!
See, I don’t take that as the customer being mad at YOU PERSONALLY for not speaking their language as it is the customer being mad that they cannot conduct the transaction is their language, which as gigi said, is not always an unreasonable expectation. Are these existing customers? And if so, was the original transaction in English ?
Screaming is uncalled for, but that hold true regardless of how valid the customer’s complaint is.
Yes, the Love Which Dare Not Click Its Name.
I was once chided for looking down on my heritage because I don’t speak Spanish.
I’m not Spanish, however. Still didn’t get an apology, though.