Posted on 01/13/2005 2:21:29 PM PST by george wythe
So how would I place italics on a quote?
newbie here.
do you have to be in some html form?
Here's a thought. Lets specify an official second language that will be used/recognized in addition to English, as it would be discriminatory to require someone who has an aversion to English for personal or religious reasons to use it. Let's pick Navaho.
Oh, come on! You're spoiling my fun. Señor Don Abrines once told me so! :-)
I always thought that too. Nonetheless, that was what I was taught by a very bright and extremely likeable Spanish professor many years ago.
Since we're on this sticky name business... there is another funny story... about Rio De Janeiro... they thoughr that they had found a river mouth, but didn't see the river, since the geography looked like a river delta should be hidden in the bay somewhere... so they just named the area Rio De Janeiro (River of January), since it was discovered in January... but it turned out, that there is no river!
Another funny story is "Montreal" (Mount Royal). They liked to name majestic mountains after royalty in the old days, and so named this little pimple of a foothill "MontReal". It is not a mountain... it's only a few hundred feet high!
I'm sure someone will come along and dispute this story, but it's interesting anyway...
I meant to ping you here, but pinged myself!
"It's insulting to Hispanics and Native Americans and anyone else who speak a different language,"
BS. I can speak French, but don't because I'm an American FIRST. I can speak Mandarin Chinese, but don't because I'm an American FIRST.
Those who choose NOT to speak English show their allegiance does NOT belong to the United States of America, so they're welcome to leave.
For the life of me, I can NEVER understand why people (legal immigrants) get upset at the prospect of this idea.
If I were to move to a different country...I would WANT to be as fluent as possible in the language spoken there.
This baffles me to no end.
I prefer transcribing Shakespeare into pig latin!
MARICOPA? OMgosh, that was miles from civilization! Wow.
Better pass it quick.
It's an outrage that English has to be made the "official language".
So how would I place italics on a quote?
The HTML tag <i> starts italics and the tag </i> ends them. You may capitalize the 'i' if you wish.
Here's the HTML for the quote which begins this post:
<blockquote><i>
So how would I place italics on a quote?
</i></blockquote>
Of course, the red and green colors are just for visualization purposes. Hope this helps...
your certainly welcome....
You should see what their neighborhoods look like here in America one they take over a town. Beer cans and broken whiskey bottles all over the store parking lots.
First of all, I don't buy the premise of the article that Hispanics are upset about English being the official language in Arizona.
Secondly, I do believe that a minority might be upset because of the demagoguery by community leaders (the race pimps who make a living my scaring folks about the evil 'Anglos')
Too pessimistic. As long as public schools teach English, movies and television are done in English, and the best pop music in planet is recorded in English, the English language will remain supreme.
The sons and daughters of immigrants have a hard time keeping their legacy, and the grandchildren will be lucky to understand a few words of the Old Country's language.
Btw, that's the main reason I oppose 'bilingual' education, where immigrant children are deprived from learning alongside average American kids. Bilingual education as a short-term program (less than a year) to help a few students coming into the school system is OK, but not the educational blackhole that liberals set up in California.
Whoever educate our children will control America's future. I hope we conservatives will defeat any liberal attempt to balkanize our country with phony bilingual programs.
As expected he's got a track record as a demagogue and a loser.
You omitted New Mexico which has English as one of its official languages.
"Texas" meaning "Friends" (Texas Leaguer dates from 1905)
"Mississippi" meaning "River of the Falls" or "Mother of Waters"
Indian names, but not of tribes.
"It's insulting to Hispanics and Native Americans and anyone else who speak a different language," said Rep. Steve Gallardo, D-Phoenix."
No. Its insulting to the vast majority of Americans who are either native English speakers, or who took the effort to earn English, that the government is wasting their tax dollars in producing forms for the benefit of morons who come to another Country and assume that they needn't bother learning the native language.
I hope this passes in Arizona, goes on to be a success in other states, and becomes a model for the National Government.
To do anythng otherwise would be to invite a Tower of Babel into our midst.
I've heard that the Brazil Nut was discovered before the country was named. That is, they discovered the nut during the early exploration of South America, named it, and when they got around to naming the country, they named it "Brazil" since it was the place where Brazil Nuts are found in abundance. The country was named after the nut not vice versa.
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