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To: Tancredo Fan
O.K. - - newcomers should learn to speak English. Any problems with people making the slightest effort to fit in here or are we all supposed to become multi-lingual to accomodate them?
3 posted on 07/09/2002 10:47:35 AM PDT by stanz
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To: stanz
O.K. - - newcomers should learn to speak English. Any problems with people making the slightest effort to fit in here or are we all supposed to become multi-lingual to accomodate them?

Well, he!!, you know you have time to learn 200+ languages. hehehe.

63 posted on 07/09/2002 11:29:16 AM PDT by Razz Barry
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......or are we all supposed to become multi-lingual to accomodate them?

If so, then which language(s) in addition to English do we learn?

Americans speak English. Naturalized American citizens should have minimum proficiency in English. Non-citizen residents are guests and Americans are hosts. It is not a host's responsibility to accomodate the guest.

I wish more people on more occasions would remind these demanding illegals of their status. Many of them think they're cats and can do as they damn well please ;-)

70 posted on 07/09/2002 11:39:02 AM PDT by varon
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To: stanz
Any problems with people making the slightest effort to fit in here or are we all supposed to become multi-lingual to accomodate them?

Don't get me wrong - I've got no problem with learning a foreign language; and if I had my druthers, I would probably learn more than one. I have an interest in cultures that speak Japanese, Spanish and French (Hey, sue me - I like Canada!). But if we moved to any part of Latin America, they would demand that we learn to speak their language in order to do any sort of business with their government for things as simple as getting mail or getting a driver's license. As a result, they shouldn't have a problem with conforming to the local language (i.e., English) when they move here.

71 posted on 07/09/2002 11:39:42 AM PDT by mhking
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To: stanz
Any problems with people making the slightest effort to fit in here or are we all supposed to become multi-lingual to accomodate them?

We're supposed to bend over backwards and make them feel as if they are back home. All illegals should be deported asap.

424 posted on 07/10/2002 10:15:41 PM PDT by dougherty
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The only non-English speakers I would not apply he common sense remarks to would be anyone speaking Navaho, Lakota, Yakama, or any other language already here when we got there.

Even then, those folks really should learn English too. One nation means one common way to communicate, or you don't have much of a nation on your hands.

484 posted on 07/11/2002 2:17:40 PM PDT by Glutton
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