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From: rob@ptsfb.UUCP (Rob Bernardo)
Newsgroups: sci.lang
Subject: Re: Multi-lingual countries
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Date: Mon, 10-Nov-86 23:13:33 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 10 23:13:33 1986
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In article <3289@watmath.UUCP> credmond@watmath.UUCP (Chris Redmond) writes:
~>I have been watching with horror as the English-only advocates in the
~>United States point to Canada as an example of what goes wrong in a
~>bilingual country. What goes on here isn't a disaster, it's (usually)
~>a happy success, in my opinion.  And while Spanish in the United States
~>is an immigrant language, French and English here are the "native"
~>languages -- well, not native in the sense that Algonquin and Cree are
~>native, of course, but they are the languages in which the country grew
~>up in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.

I don't mean to pick bones, but as for Texas and California (and probably 
other states inbtween), Spanish is ``more native'' than English.
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