[lg policy] letters to representatives: lANGUAGE POLICY

[Julia De Bres]

This discussion has been held before on this list: as I understand it Hal forwards on anything relevant to language policy as it comes across his desk, academic or not, offensive or not. Everyone knows bigoted English Only champions are out there, and they are as offensive to a non-resident of America as to anyone else. But what kind of language policy scholars would we be if we ignored them and only paid attention to views that we agreed with? Do we really want to only read things by people we agree with? I'd rather know my enemy.

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On 5/04/2010, at 6:39 PM, Manel Lacorte <mlacorte at umd.edu> wrote:

I completely agree with Ofelia's questions and requests. Please remove my name from the list if I am going to continue receiving this kind of posts. This is also MY country. Manel Lacorte.


Ofelia Garcia wrote:
Where is the signature on this letter? Is this appropriate material to post? I don't send my personal letters to this group. If this is the kind of posting that we're getting, then I would want my name removed from this list. It is also MY country.
Ofelia Garcia
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Harold Schiffman <hfsclpp at gmail.com <mailto:hfsclpp at gmail.com>> wrote:
   Letter to Representative Tammy Baldwin (D-WI 2nd) , 6th-term Democrat
   from Wisconsin.
   lANGUAGE POLICY
   To:
   President Barack Obama
   Rep. Tammy Baldwin
   Sen. Herbert Kohl
   Sen. Russ Feingold
   January 29, 2010
   We want English to be our official language. Immigrants who come to
   our Country are required to learn English. We are waisting Billions of
   dollars each year printing our information in dozens of foreign
   languages. Why do you keep catering to all the foreigners when you
   should be making them abide by our laws? By not making foreigners
   learn our language, you are allowing them to set up little foreign
   communities inside our country and not assimilate into our society. We
   are wasting Billions of our school systems money to teach foreigners
   in their own language.  Stop catering to foreigners and start working
   for "OUR" Country for a change.
   Brodhead , WI
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Ofelia García
Professor
Ph.D. Program in Urban Education
Ph.D. Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages
Graduate Center
The City University of New York
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Manel Lacorte
Assoc. Professor of Spanish Applied Linguistics
Director, Spanish Language Program
Coordinator of Instruction and Professional Development
Spanish and Portuguese/SLLC JMZ 2202
University of Maryland, College Park MD 20742
Tel. 301/405 8233. Fax. 301/314 9752
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