Re: Common words for man & husband, woman & wife

Michael Adams wrote:
<<
I know here in the US, Georgia just passed a law that for all
purposes make Spanish an official language, that a student in
Georgia by grade 5 or 6, has to be fluent in Spanish?
 >>

Excuse my response, but...WHAT?!  Are there any Georgians on
the list that can verify this?  This sounds too bizarre to possibly
be true--especially for Georgia.  If this were going to take place
anywhere, you'd think it'd be in California, Arizona, New
Mexico, Texas or Florida--you know, places with lots of Spanish
speakers.  But, of course, such a measure like this would never
pass in any of those states--not even here in California.  To think
that it'd pass in Georgia, a state which, to the naive outsider,
would have few Spanish speakers compared to other states,
strikes me as kind of unbelievable.

(Note: I don't want to cross over the "crown" part of the "Cross
and Crown" rule; I'm just genuinely interested to know if this
is true are not.  And Conlang is the most diverse resource I have,
since we have people from all over.)

-David
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