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Re: OT: passport languages

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Friday, August 29, 2003, 18:06
Nik Taylor scripsit:

> Nope. There've been proposals to make English the official language, > and there are some states with English as an official language, but the > US itself has no official language; altho, of course, English is > somewhat of a de facto main language.
There are two states that are officially bilingual: New Mexico (English/Spanish, part of the original agreement), and Hawai'i (English/ Hawai'ian, ditto but not very practical these days). But as Octavio Paz (I think) said, "When the state of Florida decrees that English is its only language, that means that English is not the only language of the state of Florida!" -- Values of beeta will give rise to dom! John Cowan (5th/6th edition 'mv' said this if you tried http://www.ccil.org/~cowan to rename '.' or '..' entries; see jcowan@reutershealth.com http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/odd.html)