Date:  Wed, 12 Jul 1995 10:30:34 -0400

From:  Wayne Glowka <wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MAIL.GAC.PEACHNET.EDU>

Subject: Re: English-only Amendments



English is now the official language in Georgia. I was hoping to get more

information on the legislative arguments by having a student do a term

paper on the law, but the Macon and Atlanta papers never printed much

detail--probably because no one cared enough to make an interesting stink.

I thought that it would be fun to examine legislative speeches about

official English for solecisms, barbarisms, and the like (a la Sledd's old

article on bidialectalism in the service of Big Brother). But we had no

such luck with our local resources.



Wayne Glowka

Professor of English

Director of Research and Graduate Student Services

Georgia College

Milledgeville, GA 31061

912-453-4222

wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]mail.gac.peachnet.edu