[Grovenet] ear mark this!

[Steven]

Wrong. You can vote in other languages. Forest grove puts out newsletters in
english and spanish. It isn't a form of bigotry to look upon that as a
waste.

-----Original Message-----
From: grovenet-bounces at rdrop.com [mailto:grovenet-bounces at rdrop.com]On
Behalf Of Walt Wentz
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 2:15 PM
To: Forest Grove local interests list
Subject: Re: [Grovenet] ear mark this!



Steve:
We already have a "common language!" It is, by default, English. What
people are objecting to is the meaningless and xenophobic rigamarole
of proclaiming it our "official" language. We don't use Latin for
writing "official" documents anymore, yet that used to be the
"official" language of our European ancestors. Latin served the
purpose of excluding the common people from "official" business--
but, instead of excluding merely one small class of unwelcome
immigrants, it excluded the entire populace, except for churchmen and
lawyers. I don't notice anyone wailing and pleading to return to
Latin as the only language for official documents. Why should we
enshrine English in that position?.
Walt

>Just an example of what happens without a common language. Who can
>understand it all. So lets have an official language that government uses
>for elections, drivers licenses and all that.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: grovenet-bounces at rdrop.com [mailto:grovenet-bounces at rdrop.com]On
>Behalf Of Katie Allnutt
>Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 10:50 PM
>To: Forest Grove local interests list
>Subject: Re: [Grovenet] ear mark this!
>
>
>Using Babel fish to translate from Portugese to English gives this:
>Is enough to say it that I can agree to the David and Walter with
>this edicao. However I disagreed in many topicos. But if voce nao
>could understand that this voce never would know that one, voce? Thus
>nao proving its proprio point
>
>   Italian starts out with pack saddles agreeing with David about
>something. French has landlords proving points. And Spanish isn't
>much better.  So I'll guess it is supposed to be Portugese, but the
>post loses something in translation.
>
>Katie
>
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