End of ADS-L Digest - 3 Sep 1995 to 5 Sep 1995

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There are 22 messages totalling 520 lines in this issue.



Topics of the day:



 1. Bounced Mail

 2. hung dogs -Reply

 3. Pronounciation of Oxymoron (4)

 4. English-only (10)

 5. English-only (fwd)

 6. hung dogs

 7. English-only legislation (again) (2)

 8. courses on language and gender or language and power

 9. add to courses on language and gender



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Date:  Wed, 6 Sep 1995 05:32:01 -0500

From:  Natalie Maynor <maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

Subject: Bounced Mail



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> Date:     Tue, 5 Sep 1995 22:09:43 -0400

> From: "L-Soft list server at UGA (1.8b)" <LISTSERV[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]uga.cc.uga.edu>

> Subject:   ADS-L: error report from BINGSUNS.CC.BINGHAMTON.EDU

>

>The enclosed message, found in the ADS-L mailbox and shown under the spool ID

>2199 in the system log, has been identified as a possible delivery error notice

>for the following reason: "Sender:", "From:" or "Reply-To:" field pointing to

>the list has been found in mail body.

>

> -------------- Message in error (60 lines) --------------------------

> From: "H. Stephen STRAIGHT (Binghamton University/SUNY)" <sstraigh[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu>

> Subject: Re: English-only (fwd)

>

> Thank you, jeffrey howard allen, for sharing these latest Dole-ful

> tidings.

>

> It's a mark of the ethno-/linguo-/racio-centric tendencies of the world

> today that the primary candidate of the primary party of the primary

> nation can out of one side of his mouth condemn efforts to help people who

> _already know_ a language other than English (LOTE) while out of the other

> side of his mouth encouraging efforts to make that same nation more

> effective in the world economy/culture/polity, which would at a minimum

> require that we increase our proficiency in LOTEs (presumably through

> schooling, though he doesn't offer funding for it).

>

> Haven't we wasted enough generations of multilingual immigrants to realize

> that they and their children may hold the key to a new international

> comity? I look forward to the day when the president of the U.S. speaks

> to a world leader in a LOTE that is the first language of _both_ of

> them. (Sort of like the day the current pope first spoke to the

> president of Poland!)

>

> So many languages, so few linguists, so little time! Languaculture rules!

>

> On Tue, 5 Sep 1995, jeffrey howard allen wrote:

> > Date: Tue, 5 Sep 1995 14:54:58 -0500

> > From: jeffrey howard allen <jhallen[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]INDIANA.EDU>

> > Subject: Re: English-only (fwd)

> >

> > Dole was on the News last night where he addressed the issue. His point

> > was about English being the means of economic potential for children in

> > school who would later need jobs. I was shocked to see him slamming

> > language programs. Another ethnocentric American. Guess that means that

> > if he becomes president he won't be speaking with diplomatic leaders of

> > other countries in their languages.

> >

> > JEFF

>

>    Best.          Bye.          Steve

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