Percentage is great. If 10% of the population your talking to speak X
language, that may well be a large enough group to cater to them. Unless the
group from the root of this conversation was made up of 10 people, I think
the Greek speaker is SOL.
Actually, I was at a meeting last week where someone claimed that
there's a new federal mandate that all federally funded program have
materials available in the native (minority) language of any group
that meets a certain population percentage. For our county that would
be Hmong and Spanish. Eesh!
But, I haven't been able to find anything to back that up.... Do you
know how hard it is to google for that sort of thing?
On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 12:13:48 -0600, dana tierney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> It's just silly. Not worth getting upset about. I have seen materials
> in other languages but Greek is not usually among them. Unless there
> is a big chunk of this that we are not hearing, his case is without
> merit. I applaud his wish to preserve his culture but you really can't
> expect every group to produce materials in every language, nor, in the
> context of the United States, should there be a mandate to do so.
> However where there is a significant group of a given culture (for
> example Navajos or New Mexico Hispanics) then they should be able to
> use their own language if they want to do so.
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