Theiling Online    Sitemap    Conlang Mailing List HQ   

Re: OT: passport languages

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Sunday, August 31, 2003, 18:30
Joe scripsit:

> To be eligible for UK citixenship, one must speak English, Scottish Gaelic, > or Welsh, AFAIK. I'm not sure if this says anything about official > languages.
I suppose you mean naturalized citizenship. You have to learn English to become a naturalized U.S. citizen, but a citizen born need not know English (though to be sure it is very useful!). -- Eric Raymond is the Margaret Mead John Cowan of the Open Source movement. jcowan@reutershealth.com --Lloyd A. Conway, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan amazon.com review http://www.reutershealth.com