================================================ Subject: Re: Multi-lingual signs... Multilanguages From: "King_Dovregubben" To: Date: Sun 5 Aug 2001 19:39:55 -0700 ================================================ I think it's appalling that most Americans only speak one language. > -----Original Message----- > From: Creed Discussion List > [mailto:CREED-DISCUSS@WINDUPLIST.COM] On Behalf Of Creed - 7M3 - Live > Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2001 5:30 PM > To: CREED-DISCUSS@WINDUPLIST.COM > Subject: Re: Multi-lingual signs... Multilanguages > > > I hope that I am not forced to learn another language. I > haven't even learned English yet. I guess that it is sort of > a handicap to have to lwearn another language. Even though > English was all that was taught in schools. Other than > "Foreign language classes". It sounds like it isn't a foreign > language now though. I think I heard something about > S.California in lines with that also. Maybe they figure that > the wages and pollution laws will be less challenging. > > Later, > > Jim > > Moonchild119@AOL.COM wrote: > > > In a message dated 8/5/01 3:34:38 AM Pacific Daylight Time, > > creed7m3live@COLUMBUS.RR.COM writes: > > > > Where I live, we don't have anyhting like that... > yet. I speak > > English and Spanish, but English is my first langauge. For a long > > time, when I didn't speak spanish, I felt like I had a handi-cap > > because there are so > > many spanish speaking people here. I was listening to > something on the > > radio, and they were talking about Southern California becoming a > > province of Mexico in like ten years. I don't know how I'd > feel about > > that . . . > > Rachel aka Moonchild > > > > : > > > > > About your "multilingual street signs"... we had > something like that > > > happening in Quebec and it's surrounding provinces a > couple years > > ago... > > the use of both French and English on signs... and I don't think > > it's done > > so to "cater to illegal aliens" or anything of the > sort, but instead to > > allow for conveniences and safety of everyone who > happens to be driving > > down the road. > > > > > > > > > -- > We're constantly being bombarded by insulting and humiliating > music, which people are making for you the way they make > those Wonder Bread products. Just as food can be bad for your > system, music can be bad for your spirtual and emotional > feelings. It might taste good or clever, but in the long > run, it's not going to do anything for you. > -- Bob Dylan, "LA Times", September 5, 1984 > > To unsubscribe or change your preferences for the > Creed-Discuss list, visit: > http://www.winduplist.com/ls/discuss/form.asp > To unsubscribe or change your preferences for the Creed-Discuss list, visit: http://www.winduplist.com/ls/discuss/form.asp