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From: <span><span><span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Brooks, Mark</span></span></span><span> </span><span><<a href="mailto:mark.brooks@twc.state.tx.us" target="_blank">mark.brooks@twc.state.tx.us</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span>LL-L "Language politics" 2008.11.04 (05)
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<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Ron said: "…I bet you,
there would be minority language recognition demands, definitely from Spanish
speakers (who make up a very large portion of the population)."</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Large portion indeed!
From <a href="http://www.elcastellano.org/noticia.php?id=759" target="_blank">http://www.elcastellano.org/noticia.php?id=759</a>. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="ES">"<span style="color: black;">Con 106 millones de hablantes, Estados Unidos es
la segunda potencia del español en el mundo; prevén que para 2050 supere
incluso a México en el número de hispano parlantes"</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="ES-MX"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">English:
"With 106 million speakers, the United States
is the second Spanish world power; it is predicted that by 2050 the
number of Spanish speakers will exceed even Mexico."</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">Wow, that's a
big jump from the latest I heard. Here in Austin, Texas it is not unusual
at all to see billboards in Spanish and to find business that operate all day
long in Spanish with very little English spoken.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">Regards,</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">Mark Brooks</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
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From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>
Subject: Language politics<br>
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Thanks, Mark.<br>
<br>
Not too long ago I walked around in the center of a Californian town where
there were only Spanish speakers around me. The menu of the Chinese restaurant
I visited was printed only in Chinese and Spanish. Also, there was no English
signage and labeling in some of the stores I saw. Furthermore, almost all
advertising I saw, including large billboards, was in Spanish only, which I also
found in certain neighborhoods of major cities such as Oakland
and San Francisco.<br><br>Also,
there are significant provisions for the US Hispanic public. This
includes major media and entertainment industries that cater not only
to the US market but to all parts of the Spanish-speaking area of the
Americas. For instance, today's election is being covered live on US
Spanish language TV with all the bells and whistles used by major
English language stations.<br>
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Regards,<br>
Reinhard/Ron</span>