It takes more than a language to unify a nation

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Sat Feb 24 18:23:10 UTC 2007


At 2/24/2007 11:27 AM, Judith Marie wrote:
>Hi all,
>When I voted in November in Berkeley, California, I first had to choose
>which language I wished to use. The choice was between Chinese, Korean,
>Spanish, English or Tagalog [sic].
>It seems to me not unreasonable that since only U.S. citizens vote, and
>that one has to pass an English language test to become a citizen, the
>ballet should be in English.

I guess some of us dance to a different drummer.

Joel

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