Re: OT: passport languages

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!"

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