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To: Schwaeky

Forget foreign language encroaching into business and multi-lingual teaching (for those who’s first language is not English). The BIGGER problem is foreign language balloting as the PRECISE language on a ballot can sway a vote to NO or YES on a ballot initiative or state constitutional amendment.

Ballot language is PRECISE. Translations are not.


141 posted on 08/30/2007 9:14:23 PM PDT by weegee (NO THIRD TERM. America does not need another unconstitutional Clinton co-presidency.)
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To: weegee
Actually disagree with you on that point. Oftentimes (opinion), ballot measures use such convoluted terminology that following what exactly they are getting at is difficult sometimes for this native Anglophone.

For ballot measures (not for things such as the presidency, senators, congressmen, etc.) would permit letting naturalized citizens use their native languages to vote; the translations should be very accurate, though, and vetted by both sides.

179 posted on 08/31/2007 12:35:45 AM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu ( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
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