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Good for business: 'No speak English - no service' sign leads to restaurant's sales TRIPLING By Daily Mail Reporter on 20th May 2011 Some chefs spend their lifetimes unsuccessfully slogging away to improve business. But all it took for Reedy Creek Diner chef Greg Simons in Lexington, North Carolina, was to put up a controversial language sign and he’s seen his sales triple. Mr Simons put up the ‘No speak English. No service’ sign in March and says he’s received great support - with some people asking for souvenir copies to take home. ‘All these calls I've gotten from outside...

The Los Angeles Unified School District...is embroiled in a nasty debate about whether meetings of a district advisory board should be conducted in English or Spanish. I don't have a child in the district, but let me say this as clearly as I can for the activists wanting to conduct meetings in anything but English: Yo quiero Ingles, por favor. For the rest of you: I want English, please. One parent said it was racist to demand people who come to America speak English. I think not. What's really odd about this debate out in L.A. for many of us...

The Liberty Bell tolls for America on election day ... are we listening? Kevin Fobbs September 29, 2006 America may not only be losing its identity it may very well be losing its most defining quality: our American liberty unless pro-American candidates are elected on November 7th. With the mid-term general election season upon us a crucial question we must ask ourselves as we enter the polling place is whether or not the gubernatorial, congressional, and state senate or representative candidates will be voting for our American liberty or for the liberty of illegal aliens who are carefully disassembling our...

Mindy McClain has attended the same state-sponsored child-care training program for years. But this year, when she signed up and paid her $20 fee, she was told that the program, which is funded through the Arizona Department of Economic Security, would be presented in Spanish instead of English for the first time. If she wanted to hear it in English, she would be provided with a translating device. "I'm like, excuse me ... I don't think so," said McClain, the director of the Children's Center preschool in Yuma. She and 10 other women demanded their money back and promised not...

HOUSTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush has long opposed making English the country's national language, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said on Friday, the day after the Senate voted to do so. The vote came in an amendment to proposed legislation overhauling U.S. immigration law and directed the government to "preserve and enhance" the role of English. Opponents said it could affect the status of some multilingual services offered by government organizations. Adding to the confusion, the Senate also adopted a softer amendment calling English the "unifying language" of the United States. Senators take both versions into negotiations over a...

What is your view on the Senate proposals regarding the English language? I support the statement that English is the 'national language' of the U.S. I support the statement that English is the 'common and unifying language' Either; they both make an important point Neither; they are unnecessary and possibly racist

Gov't asked to replace 59 English terms with Japanese Sunday, April 27, 2003 at 06:00 JST TOKYO — The National Institute for Japanese Language proposed Friday that the government avoid using 59 English or English-like terms in their Japanese-language documents.In its first completed report, the institute's panel listed the 59 terms which it had selected out of 62 samples it examined and offered Japanese-language expressions to replace them, except for "normalization," for which it failed to find a Japanese phrase.The panel conducted a survey on public recognition of the sample terms and decided that only three — "impact," "care" and...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. DUBLIN (Reuters) - Determined to repel an invasion of the English language, a local authority has proposed a ban on home building by non-Irish speakers in a scenic coastal area of western Ireland. The council wants the ban to apply to a 60-mile stretch of Connemara coastline from Barna to Carna, near the booming city of Galway. Subject to public consultation, the ban could become law in April or May and be the first in the republic's history, Despite concerns about its legality, practicality and whether it might be discriminatory, the...