Re: Why press 1 for english


"Barbara Lake" <bglake@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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However, I would also like to see
| other languages respected and learned, French in Eastern states near
the
| Canadian border, Spanish in southwestern states, and (as is already
official
| along with English in State of Hawaii) Hawaiian.
|
We are a bilingual state, here in New Mexico. Being originally from
Michigan, I learned about this in 5th grade social studies (US History).
I live on a land grant from the King of Spain, known as the Otero land
grant, which is about four hundred years old. It would be hard to do a
title search without some knowledge of Spanish.
Good article here:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jwcrawford/nm-con.htm

Jim...in New Mexico


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