[tjwmason]

Bi-lingual ballots?

How can one print the candidates' names in different languages? Or is it merely the Spanish for 'vote for the democrats, they'll be nice to you'?

Here in Britain we have some of these loony incursions too; though our main one is in Wales where Welsh is an official language alongside English (though there are no mono-lingual Welsh speakers); which means that government reports &c. are produced in Welsh, and the Welsh Assembly can debate in Welsh (during which nearly everybody listens to a simultaneous translation into English), most ridiculously, a learner driver in Wales can display a 'D' plate whereas in the rest of the U.K. it has to be an 'L' plate.

You should certainly make English your national language, though perhaps you should learn how to spell colour and centre first. ;-)

[CGVet58]

"...You should certainly make English your national language, though perhaps you should learn how to spell colour and centre first. ;-)..."

Here, Here!!! (oh wait, the folks that drive on the wrong side of the road just corrected me; it's "HEAR, HEAR!!!" - add this one to the UK spell-check ;^} )

CGVet58

[rmlew]

Welsh are not English. They are the Celtic people who inhabited that region before the Angles Saxons and Jutes invaded.
I'm an Anglophile, but the fact is that the later Edward I, the Tudors, Chales I, Cromwell, and the early Hanoverians all tried to unify Great Britain at the expense of the Welsh and Scottish.