Originally Posted by Arcole

Hello.
In castilian, or as everybody knows, in spanish, "give me a dollar please" is translated:
"deme un dolar por favor" or without please "deme un dolar".
If it is a question:
"¿tiene un dolar?"

it's absurd.
In my country if you speak english it's ok. A teacher can come and say: "well, very well, you speak english" or if the teacher doesn't want a kid speaking english he will say "don't speak english please". Thing that never happens.
It's totally absurd and a very exagerated patriotism.