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class=025024709-29082008>More on UK Radio (BBC Radio 4, Today Programme) today.
Some complacency from UK golfers who claim that they learnt (very) basic
Japanese to play in Japan, but Americans never have a go. Suggestion that the
French and Swiss should retaliate with requirement for French. Also a
suggestion that it would be reasonable with a 4 year lead-in so that the Koreans
had time to learn English.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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face=Arial><FONT size=2> <SPAN class=025024709-29082008>(8.30 -- the sports
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> owner-lgpolicy-list@ccat.sas.upenn.edu
[mailto:owner-lgpolicy-list@ccat.sas.upenn.edu] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Dennis
Baron<BR><B>Sent:</B> 29 August 2008 06:11<BR><B>To:</B> language language
policy; ads ads; wpa; Baron Dennis<BR><B>Subject:</B> LPGA to golfers: speak
English or get off the tour<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>There's a new post on the <A
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color=#010101>LPGA to golfers: speak English or get off th</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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<DIV><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The <A
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href="http://www.golfweek.com/protours/lpga/">LPGA is going English-only</A>.
Following the lead of <A
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href="http://illinois.edu/blog/view?blogId=25&topicId=1013&count=1&ACTION=VIEW_TOPIC_DIALOGS&skinId=286">the
Salvation Army</A>, <A
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href="http://illinois.edu/blog/view?blogId=25&topicId=2084&count=1&ACTION=VIEW_TOPIC_DIALOGS&skinId=286">St.
Anne Catholic School</A>, and <A
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href="http://illinois.edu/blog/view?blogId=25&topicId=73&count=1&ACTION=VIEW_TOPIC_DIALOGS&skinId=286">Geno's
Steaks</A>, the Ladies Professional Golf Association has made English its
official language. Not only that, the association told the Korean golfers on
the tour that even if they're winning tournaments, they'll have to start
speaking English by 2009 or face suspension.</SPAN></DIV>
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LPGA defended its new rule by arguing that golf is entertainment as well as
sport. It further insisted that amateurs playing with the Korean pros in U.S.
pro-am tournaments were not amused when their partners couldn't sufficiently
entertain them in English.</DIV>
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requiring golfers to speak English feeds into the ongoing mania for declaring
English official everywhere Americans gather, golf itself originated not in
the U.S. but in Scotland, in the 15th century. The sport, or entertainment, if
you prefer, didn't become popular in England for another 150 years, and it
didn't <A style="COLOR: rgb(65,65,113); TEXT-DECORATION: none"
href="http://www.charlestononlinehomes.com/Golf_Course_Homes/page_1709069.html">cross
the Atlantic</A> until the 1780s, when Scottish merchants set up the
first course in Charleston, South Carolina.</DIV>
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women were excluded from the South Carolina Golf Club, as this first golf
course was known, along with Africans and the occasional Jew or Catholic who
might turn up, regardless of whether or not they brought their own clubs, or
their willingness to entertain the members. . . . </DIV>
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the rest on <A href="http://illinois.edu/goto/weboflanguage">the Web of
Language</A></DIV></SPAN></DIV>
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