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To: LindyBill who wrote (150089)	12/7/2005 7:45:50 PM
From: ManyMoose	Respond to of 793976

Yes, indeed. Some years back my employer was experimenting with contractor self-inspection (which sounds like a real set up all by itself, does it not?). I was asked if I thought we should print inspection forms in Spanish. My answer: "Not only NO, but HELL NO!" And I'm a guy who really enjoys rapping with the Hispanics on the contracts I supervised. We already have ATMS and telephone menus that slow you down to ask whether you want to do business in English or Spanish. What if I'm Russian, or if I speak Farsi? How many menus do we have to have? My solution to all this is: MAKE ENGLISH SPEAKING KIDS LEARN SPANISH (OR ANOTHER FOREIGN LANGUAGE) BUT REQUIRE ALL BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL COMMUNICATION TO BE IN ENGLISH. It's so simple, I can't understand the revisionists who want to go multilingual on public documents like money.