Re: Americans favor making English the official language of the "U.S."

Philip <home.home1@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> http://www.us-english.org/inc/news/preleases/viewRelease.asp?ID=161

> "In Oakland, approximately 80,000 people are functionally illiterate.
> This means they cannot read or write well enough to function
> competently in society. They are unable to vote, use a checkbook,
> or write a note to a child's teacher. An estimated 50% of all Americans
> cannot fill out a job application. Nearly 75% of America's unemployed
> have trouble reading and writing, a fact that seriously threatens the
> quality of the applicant pool available to business.

I seem to recall that Greek was seriously suggested as the
official language of America in the 18th-century.

Axel

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