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

On 5/11/06, David J. Peterson <dedalvs@...> wrote:
> 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
I haven't heard anything about it -- though admittedly I haven't
been reading as much news lately as I do sometimes -- and
I doubt it very much too; I'm guessing Mr. Adams misheard
or misremembered something.

This is the closest thing I've been able to find - a new bilingual
charter school in Clayton County (near Atlanta):

http://www.news-daily.com/local/local_story_108000509.html

Other more or less relevant articles:

Controversy about whether to accept illegal immigrants in
public schools
http://www.wtoctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=4835145&nav=0qq6

A recent anti-illegal immigration law:
http://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/index.php?s=&url_channel_id=1&url_article_id=14042&url_subchannel_id=&change_well_id=2

> 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.
Fewer than Florida or California, but a fair number, at least
in the Atlanta area.  The area I live in has a fair number of
Hispanics and my parish is more than a fourth Hispanic;
in my last residence I lived in a district with a Hispanic
state representative.

--
Jim Henry
http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry