Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 8/23/84; site ucbcad.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!ucbvax!ucbcad!faustus From: faustus@ucbcad.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Official Language Of USA Message-ID: <92@ucbcad.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Feb-85 20:59:29 EST Article-I.D.: ucbcad.92 Posted: Wed Feb 6 20:59:29 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Feb-85 07:30:46 EST References: <168@nybcb.UUCP> Organization: UC Berkeley CAD Group, Berkeley, CA Lines: 22 > > I heard on the radio last week that two senators (one from California, > the other from a midwestern state, I believe) are trying to pass a law that > will make English the official language of the United States. All I can say > is "It's about time." > As I understand it, if passed, all public school classes would be taught > in English. This means no more bi-language programs where students are taught > in a language other than English. > Hopefully this will also end the printing of official signs in foreign > languages, as this is an expense taxpayers can do without. If the government > took the money that they spend on printing signs & teaching in foreign > languages & used the money to teach people English the problem would be > solved at the source. What problem? Why are you so worried about having more than one "official" language in America? Switzerland has four (or three), and this is reasonable because the people there come from various cultural backgrounds. This seems to be the case in the US too, especially in the South, so why do you want to make things tough on Spanist-speaking people (for instance) ? Wayne