Re: Yet another reason to hate Yahoo

From: Graphic Q (guess_at_where.at)
Date: 12/24/04 

Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 19:59:09 GMT

On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 12:58:30 -0600, "James H. Hood"
<jhhoodDIESPAMMERDIE@urdirect.net> wrote:

>
>Neal <neal413@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>news:opsjg5k9au6v6656@news.individual.net...
>> On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 18:43:02 GMT, Leythos <void@nowhere.lan> wrote:
>>
>> > They don't have to give it up and I would never suggest it, but when you
>> > are in a country you need to learn the language and use it when
>> > conversing with the people in that country. Care to diverge from the
>> > idea that people should speak dominate language in the country they are
>> > in?
>>
>> Well, I'll just say that you better brush up on your Spanish, my man,
>> because unless you can stop the wind that may be the outcome.
>
>Not going to happen. A century-and-a-half of experience in the Southwest
>has solidly proven that in the overwhelming number of cases, the
>grandchildren of the immigrants are monolingual English speakers.
>
Not what those of us who live and spend so much of the year will tell
you. I have many friends and lived in New Mexico and let me tell you
that plenty of the families who have lived in this country for over
300 years still don't speak English. They don't have to since NM has
both English and Spanish as the official language.

Please know what you are talking about before posting the nonsense you
did.

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