[Duo2400] Re: Foreign Language Posting & efficiently pertinentmessages

[Andrew W. Hill]

>At 12:43 PM -0600 12/12/02, Carlson wrote:
>>Someone correct me if I'm wrong but I believe this list may have originated
>>on the University of Waterloo server, here in Canada. And then was
>>subsequently moved. If that is in fact the case, then the list itself is
>>"foreign."
>
>	I stand corrected, and should have said non-English rather than
>foreign.  The predominate language in Waterloo is still English (even
>though we are a bilingual country officially).  Of course, that would bring
>up whether US nationals speak English! <grin>

English is not the national language of the USA.  The US does not 
have an official language.  This is why Spanish is used for 
instruction in some parts of Southern California.  However, the state 
figures it doesn't feel like funding it so the program is generally a 
failure.  A lot of problems are caused, however, because employers 
cannot discriminate on ability to speak a certain language over 
another, or rather inability.  The numerous workarounds are horrid.
Aqua
-- 
Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget
What thou among the leaves hast never known,
The weariness, the fever and the fret
Here, where men sit and hear each other groan;
      - John Keats: "Ode To A Nightingale"