[PLUG-TALK] Re: [PLUG] Sounds good to me ;)
Craighead, Scot D
craighead.scot at vectorscm.com
Thu Jun 20 04:24:58 UTC 2002
Russ:
>Language IS importand. The fact remains that we are a nation of
>immigrants, and as such, no one language is spoken by all.
I honestly don't see how you can say this. All the signs are in English.
Legal documents are in English. When a Government official gives a speech,
it is in English. There are a few small pockets of people that speak only
another language. They are a tiny, tiny percentage of the population. Can
you agree with that? I would say for all practical purposes, English is the
language we use in the United States.
Here is a seperate thought. In Africa, the many tribes have many different
languages. They have realized that it is impossible to learn all the
languages. They have adopted English as a language to use when they are
talking to people that don't know their own language. So if a person learns
English (the Queen's, not American) in addition to their own tribe's
language, they can communicate to nearly everyone.
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