[Vision2020] Words Bring Pause

[david sarff]

India has two official languages.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_languages_of_India




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>Sorry - gotta disagree with the good Senator.  In NO other country in this
>world is this type of discussion ever even taken place or considered.  You
>move to a country - YOU LEARN THE LANGUAGE!  Period.
>
>What does the Senator suggest - we all learn his father's language?  What
>about the Japanese or the Latin or the Haitian or......it goes on and on 
>and
>on.
>
>Having one language that everyone speaks, to me, guarantees that we will at
>least be able to talk to one another and THAT is where democracy starts.  
>We
>can't talk, we can't agree, we can't get anywhere.
>
>Remember the Tower of Babel......
>
>
>J  :]
>
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> >From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
> >To: "Vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> >Subject: [Vision2020] Words Bring Pause
> >Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 14:42:03 -0700
> >
> > >From today's (March 11, 2007) Spokesman Review with a very special 
>thanks
> >to
> >State Senator Edgar Malepeai -
> >
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> >
> >Words Bring Pause
> >
> >The Idaho Senate voted 20-15 in favor of Senate Bill 1172, declaring
> >English
> >to be the official language of Idaho, in a debate that took a personal
> >turn.
> >
> >"It's not for shutting people out, but bringing people in," Sen. Mel
> >Richardson, R-Idaho Falls, lead sponsor of the bill, told the Senate.
> >
> >Sen. Edgar Malepeai, D-Pocatello, said quietly, "Looking around the
> >chamber,
> >I think I'm probably the only one that has English as a second language."
> >Malepeai recalled that his late father and uncles served proudly in the
> >U.S.
> >military. "They spoke very, very broken English, but they were proud
> >American Samoans," Malepeai said. Democracy and freedom "is what unifies
> >people in this country," he said, "not the English language." A hush fell
> >in
> >the Senate after Malepeai's comments, and no one else debated the bill.
> >
> >---------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >Seeya round town, Moscow.
> >
> >Tom Hansen
> >Moscow, Idaho
> >
> >"I love my country but fear my government."
> >
> >- Author Unknown
> >
> >
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