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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))2/12/2013 9:59:01 am PST

re: #343 b_sharp

Just look at how poorly off bi/multilingual countries like Canada, Israel, Switzerland, Belgium, Finland, etc. are because of language.

Those are all cases unto themselves. I got no trouble with English being the official language of government in the USA, but neither do I have any problem with the notion that lots of people use other languages to communicate privately.

I grew up in a household where my mom and grandma spole Croatian, the neighbors spoke Spanish at home and we we were regulars at a restaurant where the owners spoke Greek to each other and most of their staff.

But the GOP is sending a message that they consider speaking Spanish within the border of the USA to be some sort of threat to our integrity.