Bilingual Education research

Grant Barrett gbarrett at WORLDNEWYORK.ORG
Tue Jun 12 18:21:02 UTC 2001


I'm a little late in catching up on my email (because I'm looking for summer
employement in the NYC area, hint, hint);

On mardi 5 juin 2001 11:54, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU> wrote:
>there were people who called for ordinances
>banning speech in any language other than english in public places,
>like on the street or in restaurants and stores.  (a surprising number
>of people seem to be affronted by hearing conversations they can't
>understand.)

That's always been my explanation for why people hate cell phone usage in public:
they're missing out on half of what's going on.

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Grant Barrett
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