As if most runners would avoid contact with prositutes or walk off a strib bar!

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Wow

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That's just... You're wrong. Most Hispanic immigrants (who make up a minority of the population) become English-dominant or -only by the second or third generation. Many who are native born are also much more like to know no Spanish or little Spanish than no English or ESL. Their parents don't want them left behind because speaking Spanish is seen as a stigma to a lot of people across the racial/ethnic divide, especially in California and the border states.

In agreeing with you, I want to add this:

Chargen assumes X number of BP (or equivalent distribution of your PC's life based on the priority system). It is the accumulation of all learned skills, attributes, resources, etc. to the instant in which a PC is "born."

If I wanted to make a "Crimsondude" PC with 125 BP who was "born" at the instant of this post being left, I would take into consideration the fact that while I get (Int * 1.5) language points and (Int * 5) knowledge points to design myself. Assuming I had an Int of 4 (I'm a little smarter than your average bear), I'd get 6 LS pts. and 20 KS pts. which (as far as language goes) would be spent insofar as I'd blow 5 pts. on English, and 3 more pts. to make my (R/W) skill equal my speaking skill since I write a great deal better than I speak. Well, there goes my 6 lang. pts. and 2 knowledge pt. However, I'm also a proficient Spanish speaker, and so I'd spend 3 pts. on Spanish, and add 2 pts. to boost my (R/W) to 3 since I read and write Spanish better than I speak it. That's all my language skill pts. and 7 knowledge skill pts., which leaves me 13 pts. to expend on all of the acumulated academic, background, interest, performance/artistic, familiarity, sixth (fifth, really), and street skills I've learned over my lifetime.

Now, whether I am comfortable applying those remaining 14 free KS pts. to various skills is a bit difficult because the description of, for example, a 5 in Political Science seems to me to be the equivalent of my B.A. in Political Science. However, when taken in context that skills over 6 are supposed to be top- notch and the disparity between 5 and 6 goes from "Educated" to "Mastered."

Of course, they also think all LS employees, even the secretary, should have a 3 or 4 (4 for officers) in Pistols as a requirement of the hiring process to meet the criteria listed in Lone Star that I or [omitted] could probably meet with minimal training (skill 2) because we've fired pistols a handful of times between us.

On the other hand, maybe I want to have more languages because I am some badass cunning linguist who grew up being fluent in umpteen languages because I grew up overseas (which, btw, stinks of bullshit stereotyping to me. I met plenty of people in Europe who spoke only 1 language or 2 with the second as well as I speak Spanish (maybe), and a couple who spoke three (two being in the same language "family"), and 1 person with a Ph.D in English Lit. The world is not that one-dimensional).

To make such a PC, you throw more KS or AS points into the mix with your free (Int * 1.5) LP to make your cunning linguist. How hard is it to understand this?

Also recall that it is physically more difficult to learn another language as an adult than as a child, and yet that's not really taken into account in the rules. Apparently, they're already too hard and complex.

Did the player thought this character would work? I mean being usuable as a runner?

Wow, all this time and only one comment about this pun.

If it hurts, you just ain't doing it right.