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To: Lane3 who wrote (8911)	4/14/2002 2:53:15 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 21057

I don't know Laz well enough to figure out if he's being teasingly provocative or serious, sometimes ... but i did not as he says suggest spanish should be mandatory for all in occupied México, i think such compulsion would likely be counter-productive to a main function of language broadening, that of reducing intolerance, it would feed right into the anti-hispano racism But i maintain that any education system worthy of the title will provide fluency in two tongues to all ... they know this in the Netherlands, Danmark, you don't get a ticket out of high school there without english, and i believe there are few or no german universities you can enter without english and at least a start on a romans tongue such as french or spanish ... looking for a saved magazine article on this just now, can't find it ... [edit] - nope, it's boxed up now, an Economist from at least six-eight years ago, possibly fifteen, great article on languages, the spreading and the dying, the relationships between, connections with economics of course ... great stuff, tables and graphs and all