'This is Alabama...We Speak English'....

I didn't mean to but, prefer English. everyone wants to move here then learn english. =/ Like poweron mentioned in his post..
 
I don't mind about different languages on driver exam, however I will be okay with English only driving exam if state government offers English classes for anyone who is unable to speak English or include with driving courses if they want learn how to driving.

Of course, English isn't easier language to learn, that what I was heard and some immigrants are struggling to achieve their goal on English language.

Georgia does similar like that too.

Tim James isn't popular as Byrne does, both of them are running for GOP state governor in primary election.
 
souggy said:
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Dyslexia can be dealt with. Mom has it.

They can learn how to sight-read like us deafies, they can undergo therapies to be given life skills to deal with dyslexia. So, I don't understand why you brought that up? Most people with dyslexia drives, and they seems to follow the road signs quite well, even if it's all text.
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I wasn't thinking of them driving.... I was thinking of them taking a written test. Don't they need to have the test read to them?
 
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Buffalo said:
souggy said:
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Dyslexia can be dealt with. Mom has it.

They can learn how to sight-read like us deafies, they can undergo therapies to be given life skills to deal with dyslexia. So, I don't understand why you brought that up? Most people with dyslexia drives, and they seems to follow the road signs quite well, even if it's all text.
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I wasn't thinking of them driving.... I was thinking of them taking a written test. Don't they need to have the test read to them?
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She didn't need to since the sentences were short. Not sure about the needs of other dyslexic folks.

I just know she could read captionings, subtitles, menus, multiple choice exams, street signs, basic math equation (think 2 plus 2), but essays, legal documents, novels, long e-mails, complex equations and so on are physically tiring because she read a sentence about 5 times before going to the next one to ensure she has read correctly.
 
whenever I see about "English first" or "English only", honestly it does set off little alarm bells in my mind. Immediate visceral thinking that goes down the so-called road to all kinds of things...
 
I think that mentioning even considering english only is crude and insensitive. This is a country formed and sustained by many different races and cultures. I think of all people, we, the Deaf community would be understanding of the idea of tolerance and acceptance of other language and cultures. To me, one of the most awesome things about America is its diversity.
 
dogmom said:
whenever I see about "English first" or "English only", honestly it does set off little alarm bells in my mind. Immediate visceral thinking that goes down the so-called road to all kinds of things...
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Quebec, Canada...French only. No alarm bells there yet I went there once and put my French to go use.

English is the language most used businesses around the world or "lingua franca" in this instance. English is seen as a language of opportunity.
 
kokonut said:
Quebec, Canada...French only. No alarm bells there yet I went there once and put my French to go use.

English is the language most used businesses around the world or "lingua franca" in this instance. English is seen as a language of opportunity.
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Quebec is bull.

They demand that we provide French signages with all the English ones, yet they don't do the same for us.
 
This makes me uncomfortable. It feels like the first step down a road that I don't want to see us go down. First it is tests only in English, then it is no interpreters in court, (which would clearly affect Deaf people) then English becomes the only acceptable language for education, and where does that leave ASL????
 
Banjo said:
Well, it's not French only anymore. The supreme court struck that down back in the 80s.

Quebec's French-Only Sign Law Voided - NYTimes.com

Regardless, the language law is stupid.
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Well, the case said that Quebec's ban on non-French languages is a violation of Charter of Rights. So... if an Anglophone wants to set up an English-based business in middle of Montreal, he can. Or if an Anglophone-majority town wants to put up English signs, they can. Still doesn't resolve the whole one-way "all English signs should have French too" issue. Remember the recent Olympics when Quebecois were whining that B.C. didn't represent the French CULTURAL diversity, in a province where French were historically almost non-existent, when B.C. has already budgeted for inclusion of the French language for national broadcast?
 
Beowulf said:
Is it just me, or is being xenophobic just cool?
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I see it as a matter of efficiencies. Like Reba pointed out, having 20 different languages in signages, for example, isn't a good idea. It's a waste of time, money, resources and makes the whole process much more complicated.
 
kokonut said:
Then don't and maintain the "English-only" stance.
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That's the problem...

The Western provinces have been maintaining that stance for decades. The Central provinces (Manitoba and Ontario) were willing to compromise, but everytime the Anglophones try to push Quebec for language equality, the Francophones ignore their English-speaking populations (and the convinently ignoring all the French-English equality in Ontario) and point the finger at the Western provinces (where everything outside of legal documents is English-only) and say that we don't include the French.

So it's a stalemate.

I realize it got nothing to do with Alabama, but invoking the example of Quebec is not as black and white as it is being presented as.
 
hohDougRN said:
I think that mentioning even considering english only is crude and insensitive. This is a country formed and sustained by many different races and cultures. I think of all people, we, the Deaf community would be understanding of the idea of tolerance and acceptance of other language and cultures. To me, one of the most awesome things about America is its diversity.
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Agreed.
 
kokonut said:
I see it as a matter of efficiencies. Like Reba pointed out, having 20 different languages in signages, for example, isn't a good idea. It's a waste of time, money, resources and makes the whole process much more complicated.
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The English-only driving tests was brought to the attention of the Surpeme Court in 2001. I have linked to it in one of the previous posts.

FindLaw | Cases and Codes

Conclusion?

"There is no private right of action to enforce disparate-impact regulations promulgated under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964."

If it's a federally-funded program... why isn't the federal government the one handling it? I means... "if you want the job done right, do it yourself" kinda rings here.
 
souggy said:
The English-only driving tests was brought to the attention of the Surpeme Court in 2001. I have linked to it in one of the previous posts.

FindLaw | Cases and Codes

Conclusion?

"There is no private right of action to enforce disparate-impact regulations promulgated under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964."

If it's a federally-funded program... why isn't the federal government the one handling it? I means... "if you want the job done right, do it yourself" kinda rings here.
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There was no intentional discrimination. You'd have 50 other languages that may be a native language for various individuals to sue and require that the tests be done in their language. How many languages are we going to put up just to be politically correct? This is where it gets messy, inefficient, and creates more problems than it does solve them.
 
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