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It's a band-aid, Jebediah. A band-aid on a sore caused by blood poisoning. It's shouldn't be necessary and distracts resources from the real problem.
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This is Brian R,s home turf. Weigh in, sir.
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When you read the whole post I can't figure out what he stand for, having English as the standard language or not?
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What he means is if you don't learn the language you just don't get the same service as you would without. That is, no automatic interpretation at tax payers expense for example. So, if you choose not to learn the language, it's on your own head, but we're (you're) not going to subsidise your ignorance.
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What I got out of it is that we should not force someone to learn English but we should also not go out of our way to accommodate them if they choose not too.
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That is my view as well. Our documents, schools, signs, courts, etc, should all be in/conducted in English alone.
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03-15-2007, 02:25 AM | #24 |
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I think government functions - except maybe signs, just for simplicity - should be pan-lingual on demand. End of story.
Businesses, on the other hand, can make the choice for themselves. Immigrants can't complain if a business decides to internally conduct business only in english (though the business may suffer for it). Standardizing a language for your business is NOT discrimination. Standardizing a language for a country that intentionally and deliberately has no official language just so the 'damn dirty mexicans' wont come over, is.
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Pan-lingual for simplicity? Suuuuuurrrre.
Who said Mexicans? Why is everyone who is Latino a Mexican? Why are all non-English speaking immigrants Mexicans? I can never figure this out? |
03-15-2007, 03:19 AM | #26 |
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What?
I said english signs for simplicity, panligualism on demand for all other government functions. And I was making fun of stupid bigoted rightwingers who only want to make english the official language to spite immigrants, especially illegal ones from mexico - like the article.
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How many languages are going to be on those sign? You going to let people drive that can't read the signs or the rules? Can you say 6 pound traffic ticket?
How many piles of instructions at the IRS? Or the Post Office? Motor Vehicle Department? Hospital? Menus? Chinese? Portuguese (which is as common as Spanish in the Americas)? French? Italian? Hindi? German? Be big signs/piles, methinks. A common language gives people something is common instead of the division that's eating away Canada. It's not bigoted to make the country function like a country instead of like the ineffectual UN. Start thinking beyond a hypothetical situation, a classroom exercise in what would be desirable in a perfect world. The world doesn't work that way, when you look at the realities of execution. When you start putting up the poles and painting signs people can read without stopping in the middle of the road. When you have to take the neighbors house by eminent domain, just to house the piles of instructions. And pay for it.
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Bruce, as long as I'm not allowed to vote, and dont have to pay taxes, I can be as unrealistic and utopian as I wish. Thats the great thing about being outside the system; you arent bound by it.
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True, but best to understand it before getting there, because it will crush you in a most painful way if you don't know how, or when,to play it.
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I'd say two: English and Spanish. They're the most prevalent languages in our country right now.
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