Date:  Thu, 14 Sep 1995 01:49:32 CDT

From:  "Donald M. Lance" <ENGDL[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MIZZOU1.MISSOURI.EDU>

Subject: Re: English Only



When I spent a year in Germany on exchange, I had hoped to develop

more than a modicum of fluency in the language. But I was around

university people most of the time, and they wanted to practice their English.

Occasionally I had an opportunity to use German with someone who knew no

English. Then I learned some German fairly fast and it was relatively

fast in my brain afterward, whereas schoolbooks put some German into my

brain only temporarily.

But that was Germany, not the good ole U. S. of A. And just look:

They've got Helmut Kohl, but we've got Bill Clinton and Bob Dole and

Newty! Ah for a Helmut Schmidt!      DMLance