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From: deb5@ellis.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: Re: English: USA supreme court this fall
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Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 14:29:56 GMT
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In article <31724B3D.6856@eurocontrol.fr>,
Peter Hullah  <Peter.Hullah@eurocontrol.fr> wrote:
>J. Kanze wrote:
>> 
>> Sounds like what happened in Alsace, or Brittany.  No beatings, but
>> there was a baton that was passed around.  Whoever spoke a word of
>> dialect got it, and could only get rid of it by passing it to someone
>> else who used dialect.  The last person to have it got to stay after and
>> help clean up.
>
>This is exactly what happened to Cornish and Welsh speakers in the UK
>last century. In Cornwall, it worked - no-one speaks cornish anymore.

I find it difficult to believe that this is what did in Cornish considering
it died out before the advent of universal public education.

[snip]
>AFAIK there are plenty of areas in the US where road signs and administrative
>papers exist in other languages than English.

In Chicago's South Chinatown, for instance, street signs are in both
English and Chinese.  The traffic signs are all in English, though.


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