By: fstanley
Hi Chris, I liked the joke :) But...lots of countries have an official national language or even two so I don't see a problem with having one. I think though that the US as the "melting pot" should be...
View ArticleBy: Mjolnir
I like Arnie's comment the other day about turning off Telemundo to hasten the immersion process, and the English language law, if it would require that all official forms be in English only, would...
View ArticleBy: Chris Weigant
["valbrady" posted two comments to a different article which really belong here. I have reproduced these to add to the discussion. -CW] =========================== First, to the English only issue....
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Val - I think that you're right about teaching languages early. To strain the metaphor, I think we blew our chance to force Puerto Rico to speak English back when we got the island after the...
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Mjolnir - Yeah, I thought Arnie had a good point too. If you read his entire commentary, he basically said "When I got to America, I watched TV and listened to the radio constantly, since it was the...
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Stan - While I agree with you in substance, I think a lot of what drives this issue for average Americans is fear, due to their unilingual (monolingual?) nature. I can sum up this argument best as:...
View ArticleBy: Michale
Personally, I am as open-minded and all encompassing as the next liberal, despite accusations to the contrary.. But, I have a real problem with people coming to this country for all it's benefits, yet...
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As to the issue of Puerto Rico??? You want to be a state.. The English language comes along with it.. You don't want to speak English?? Then you don't want to become a state.. What could be more...
View ArticleBy: Herm71
Yeah, I read Arnie's comments about turning off Telemundo too. As one of not-very-many white bilingual Americans, I'm a bit conflicted about them. My second language is Spanish (I'm a Californian, it's...
View ArticleBy: Chris Weigant
Herm71 - OK, let me play devil's advocate a moment here. While I largely agree with your comment, I have to bring this up. What happens when there's a wreck/road construction/other out-of-the-ordinary...
View ArticleBy: Michale
And CW raises the perfect point? Where do you stop?? If you have things printed in Spanish, then the Chinese immigrants are going to want things printed in Chinese. And, since the Chinese are getting...
View ArticleBy: Chris Weigant
Historical tidbit for everyone to chew on -- [Actually, two. That should read "historical titbit"... American spelling was bowdlerized due to Puritanism around 100 years ago.] But what I really wanted...
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>That should read “historical titbit†Now yer just teasing... :D Michale.....
View ArticleBy: Chris Weigant
To anyone interested in this article -- I got what appears to be a Clinton appointee to The President's Interagency Group on Puerto Rico as a commentor to the Huffington Post version of this article....
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