As we all stood and listened, RafaMinu sung the following words:
> It all began with the misadventures of a resented Russian woman, whose
> name I do not wish to remember. Years ago, when Dade County was
> officially bilingual, she got hysterical when she saw that the signs
> at Miami Air****t were in English and Spanish and with the help of some
> other linguistically altered souls formed a pro English-only movement
> to vote the existing bilingual law out in the mostly-Hispanic
> Miami-Dade county.
When I was in Miami a few years ago I noticed that the buses, which I'm
reasonably sure were run by the county, had signs in three languages
(Haitian Creole being the third).
Even accepting what you've said as being true, though, it would appear
that the message hasn't gotten through:
http://www.miamidade.gov/district06/espanol.asp
http://www.mdpls.org/miespanol/default.asp
But you should never let reality get in the way of a good rant, right?
--
A. Gwilliam
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