[lg policy] letters to representatives: lANGUAGE POLICY

Wed Apr 7 14:02:38 UTC 2010

thanks, Anthea,

I'll take your suggestion and use something like [FORWARDED MATERIAL, NOT
SENDER'S OWN VIEWS].

I also agree that we need to know where the xenophobes are, and what they're
saying.  I don't believe
in taking what I call a "nicey-nicey" approach, and acting like everything
is wonderful, and everybody
agrees with me/us.

HS

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 10:40 PM, Anthea Fraser Gupta
<A.F.Gupta at leeds.ac.uk>wrote:

> Don't be too careful, Hal!
>
> It IS cool to send this sort of material. It is vital that we know that
> there are xenophobic bigots around (in all communities). We need to read
> offensive materials. Otherwise, how do we know what we should address?
>
> It's always clear to me what are the forwarded materials and what are the
> things under a sender's own name, but maybe, for the sake of members new to
> lists, we need to have the forwarded materials beginning with something
> like:
>
> [FORWARDED MATERIAL, NOT SENDER'S OWN VIEWS]
>
> Anthea
> *     *     *     *     *
> Anthea Fraser Gupta (Dr)
> School of English, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT
> <www.leeds.ac.uk/english/staff/afg<
> http://www.leeds.ac.uk/english/staff/afg>>
> *     *     *     *     *
>
> ________________________________
> From: lgpolicy-list-bounces+a.f.gupta=leeds.ac.uk at groups.sas.upenn.edu[lgpolicy-list-bounces+a.f.gupta=
> leeds.ac.uk at groups.sas.upenn.edu] On Behalf Of Harold Schiffman [
> haroldfs at gmail.com]
> Sent: 05 April 2010 18:13
> To: Language Policy List
> Subject: Re: [lg policy] letters to representatives: lANGUAGE POLICY
>
> All:
>
> There was no signature on this letter; it was being forwarded to the world
> by the member of
> Congress.  I didn't notice the lack of a signature until I had sent it.
>  I'll be more careful
> in the future.
>
> I thought it useful to demonstrate that some members of Congress think it's
> cool to
> make it known that they support this kind of xenophobia.
>
> HS
>
> On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Ofelia Garcia <ogarcia at gc.cuny.edu
> <mailto:ogarcia at gc.cuny.edu>> 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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Harold F. Schiffman

Professor Emeritus of
Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
Dept. of South Asia Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305

Phone:  (215) 898-7475
Fax:  (215) 573-2138

Email:  haroldfs at gmail.com
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