It takes more than a language to unify a nation

[Joel S. Berson]

Sorry for any confusion.  But I had not noticed this excerpt in
Bill's message, and in Salikoko's it was*not* preceded by a quotation bar:

>grew up in had a dial full of English radio stations, now there are
>some Spanish speaking stations.  If I'm looking at the
>specifications of a TV at Circuit City,!
  as often as not I've got to turn the box around because the side
facing me is Spanish rather than English.

>All this is to say that probably some of the underlying desire for
>English-only laws is not so much to make immigrants

Joel

At 2/25/2007 10:06 PM, you wrote:
>In the posting below, Joel Berson attributes to me something I did
>not write. That's the part that I had retained from Bill Mullins'
>posting, to which I was responding. I have not lived the experience
>that Mullins reported.
>
>Sali.
>
>Joel S. Berson wrote:
>>At 2/25/2007 07:22 PM, Salikoko S. Mufwene wrote:
>>>  as often as not I've got to turn the box around because the side
>>>facing me is Spanish rather than English.
>>
>>At least the boxes are not biased against one language versus another.
>>
>>Joel
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